I Wish This War Were Over
by Diana O'Hehir
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I Wish This War Were Over, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, is a coming-of-age story of love and pain set against the tumultuous background of World War II... “something rare and precious: a novel of genuine distinction...” Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostTags
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Finalists
88 works; 9 members
World War II Novels
28 works; 4 members
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13 Works 224 Members
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- Carla Day; Dr. Edward Day; Sheriff Munro
- Blurbers
- Elkins, Aaron
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3565 .H4 .I2 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- (3.40)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
