Red Rover
NY: Viking Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. 5.75"x9.5" 264 pp. 2nd printing. White boards w/gilt letters to spine. Designed by Spring Hoteling. DJ design by Evan Gaffney Design. Author photo by Mark Bryant. McNamer's 4th novel. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Collectible - Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #13532
A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendship.
Deirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and sweep of her fiction. Her first novel in seven years, Red Rovertells the story of three Montana men who get swept up in the machinations of World War II and its fateful aftermath. As boys, Aidan and Neil Tierney ride horseback for miles across unfenced prairie, picturing themselves as gauchos, horsemen of the Argentine pampas. A hundred miles away, Roland Taliaferro wants only to escape the violence and poverty of his family. As war approaches, Aidan and Roland join the FBI. Roland serves Stateside while Aidan—in a gesture as exuberant as a child in a game of Red Rover—requests hazardous duty and is sent as an un...
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