Love Among the Ruins Paperback - 2002
by Robert Clark
Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. When they run away to create a new life in the wilderness, their parents' predictable lives take an entirely different course, and America itself seems to lose its innocence, never again to be quite the same.
From the jacket flap
When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne-"I don't know if you know that you know me-the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America, is about to change forever. But the day Emily receives the letter and composes a response-"I know who you are. In fact, I remember you from a bunch of times-is also the day that Robert Kennedy is shot. In Minnesota, even as the tumultuous summer of 1968 has begun, first love cares little for matters of time and place.
"William and Emily fall hard, despite the fact that he and his family are determined to wrestle with the system while she and hers are conservative, God-fearing Catholics. Together, the young lovers grow into each other and decide to escape to the wilderness to start anew. Left behind to grapple with the shifting mores of the nation and the sundering of their families, the Lowrys and the Byrnes must search for both their children and their own lost innocence.
Masterfully rendering both young love and the unrest of the 1960s Robert Clark has crafted a work that is at once intimate and grand.
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- Title Love Among the Ruins
- Author Robert Clark
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Advance Reader's
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-08-13
- ISBN 9781400030309 / 1400030307
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.3 x 0.74 in (20.27 x 13.46 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Middle West, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002066199
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Booksense '76 Sep/Oct 2002, 09/01/2002, Page 1
- Kliatt, 01/01/2003, Page 14
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