A hero of the Hollywood Ten and winner of two Academy Awards, he worked on few Westerns (he wrote the unsprkling Cowboy in 1958 and the slightly routine The Last Sunset, with Kirk, the year before Lonely) and didn’t really ‘get’ it. Having the best name in the world (Dalton Trumbo) doesn’t mean you can automatically write the best Western screenplay. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.Only the script is a bit leaden. Foreword Reviews and Clarion Reviews make no guarantee that the publisher will receive a positive review. The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book and paid a small fee to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. Fleshed out by small-town personalities who participate in company ball games and have personal conflicts, Lumberton is a compelling setting for the book’s drama, which reflects the powerful, lasting impacts of overseas combat-both on those involved and on those left behind.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. Thus, Rollie and Harry’s neighbors reflect the growing dichotomies within their country, which now wants to isolate itself from the world’s affairs but which also rises to the challenges that it faces. Through this trade, the townspeople are linked to Europe as it rebuilds still, they are far from cosmopolitan. And it ably captures the atmosphere of Lumberton, a Seattle suburb, which is populated by busybodies and dedicated to its logging industry. The prose is tight and direct, imparting dread around people’s persistent secrets. Meanwhile, Harry provides views into changing political scenes, and Kay, who had to continue on while her husband was gone, enjoys new freedoms (she got a job she secured her own bank account) she becomes representative of the people left at home during the war, who are now somewhat more distrustful, and who saw society shift in the absence of men. Rollie becomes a stand-in for those who adapt to the nation’s changes he’s fascinating as he cares for his daughter despite the general reluctance of men to do so. The country that Rollie and Harry return to is not the same as the one that they left. These central characters become mouthpieces for a time of national change. Kay reaches out to Rollie to learn more about the stranger in her bed, and Rollie’s revelations change how she understands Harry and her place in the world. His wife, Kay, begins to distrust her husband, finding that he has changed during his time away he is now distant and cold. He carries a grudge and nurses political aspirations. Meanwhile, Rollie’s former commanding officer, Harry, lives in the same town as Rollie. He finds a phonograph and hidden illegal wine in the basement of his home a sense of mystery grows. And Rollie becomes suspicious that Tess was unfaithful to him, amplifying the book’s tension. Information about his military service is doled out via hints and allusions. As he takes on “women’s duties,” he solidifies his distance from those around him, hindering his future plans and his interactions with others. Rollie is an army veteran whose homecoming is complicated by the fact that his wife has died, leaving him to care for their infant. In Larry Zuckerman’s affecting historical novel Lonely Are the Brave, soldiers struggle after serving overseas in World War I. Lonely Are the Brave is a powerful historical novel in which two veterans are pitted against each other in postwar America.
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