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In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WI and must face a world at war--from opposing sides.Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his brooding German poet-cousin, Wils Brandl, burst into her sheltered world. As Wils quietly helps the beautiful, spirited Helen navigate Harvard, they fall for each other against a backdrop of tyrannical professors, intellectual debates, and secluded boat rides on the Charles River.But with foreign tensions mounting and the country teetering on the brink of World War I, German-born Wils finds his future at Harvard--and in America--increasingly in danger. When both cousins are called to fight on opposing sides of the same war, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most. Based on the true story behind a mysterious and controversial World War I memorial at this world-famous university, The End of Innocence sweeps readers from the elaborate elegance of Boston's high society to Harvard's hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields, offering a powerful and poignant vision of love and hope in the midst of a violent, broken world. …
Seller Inventory # CIN1492609935G
- Title
- End of Innocence
- Author
- Allegra Jordan
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1492609935
- ISBN 13
- 9781492609933
In this enthralling story of love, loss, and divided loyalties, two students fall in love on the eve of WWI and must face a world at warfrom opposing sides.
Cambridge, MA, 1914: Helen Windship Brooks, the precocious daughter of the prestigious Boston family, is struggling to find herself at the renowned Harvard-Radcliffe university when carefree British playboy, Riley Spencer, and his brooding German poet-cousin, Wils Brandl, burst into her sheltered world. As Wils quietly helps the beautiful, spirited Helen navigate Harvard, they fall for each other against a backdrop of tyrannical professors, intellectual debates, and secluded boat rides on the Charles River.
But with foreign tensions mounting and the country teetering on the brink of World War I, German-born Wils finds his future at Harvardand in Americaincreasingly in danger. When both cousins are called to fight on opposing sides of the same war, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most.
Based on the true story behind a mysterious and controversial World War I memorial at this world-famous university, The End of Innocence sweeps readers from the elaborate elegance of Boston's high society to Harvard's hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields, offering a powerful and poignant vision of love and hope in the midst of a violent, broken world.
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"I generally don't read a lot of literary fiction, but I've got to say, this is a winner. I read it in one sitting. Allegra Jordan is a gifted writer." - Elizabeth Kanouse, Director, Denville Public Library (NJ)
"I read "End of Innocence" yesterday. I couldn't put it down...it felt so real. I was moved to tears--three times....Loved the historical detail....I will be recommending it to everyone. This was wonderful!" - Catherine Coyne, Director, Mansfield Public Library, MA
"I liked this book very much. There is so much to be said about WWI, but this addressed it in a personal literary fashion. And, it was so wise and hopeful." - Nancy Nevin, Sunriver Books & Music, OR
"This is a wonderful story set around prestigious Harvard College prior to America's intervention into the Great War and follows a cast of formidable characters into the early 1930s...More than Harvard's story, it is one of loyalty, love, trust, and betrayal, woven around the war that tore families apart, but eventually drew strength out of long-buried loneliness." - Carol Hicks, Bookshelf Stores Inc. (CA)
"A delicious, well-crafted historical novel." - Daniel Klein, NYT best-selling co-author of PLATO and A PLATYPUS WALKS INTO A BAR
"A fresh imagination about divided loyalties, justice, and love." - Debora Spar, Barnard College President
"Allegra Jordan's The "End of Innocence" is a moving ode to a lost generation. With lyrical prose and rich historical detail, Jordan weaves a tale in which love overcomes fear, hope overcomes despair, and the indelible human spirit rises up to embrace renewal and reconciliation in the face of loss and destruction." - Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife
"An exquisitely beautiful novel." - William Ferris, UNC-Chapel Hill professor and former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
"In this carefully crafted novel, Allegra Jordan shows that the power of writing itself, the stored and accumulating power of poetry...can be released into our lives, take us out of entrenched positions, and set us free." - Malcolm Guite, Cambridge University chaplain, and author of FAITH, HOPE, AND POETRY
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