After You've Gone A Novel

by Lent, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780871138941
• ISBN10: 0871138948
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press

Summary

A striking epic and a great love story, War Gardens moves beyond the northeastern territory described in the first two books of best-selling author Jeffrey Lent and into a broader America as it transforms itself over the course of the two world wars. War Gardens opens in a remote Nova Scotian fishing village, where the young Henry Dorn is being groomed to assume leadership of the family's fishing enterprise. But an encounter with a professor from the United States awakens him to greater possibilities. After marrying his mentor's daughter, Olivia, the two struggle to cope with the forces of World War I and then the heady, early days of Madison Avenue 1920s advertising boom. With the advent of the Second World War, Henry and Olivia's only son, Robert, secretly enlists with the British army. Following the war, Henry travels to Holland to discover the truth behind his son's life. After learning of his son's service to the Dutch Resistance, Henry faces a great moral challenge. With keen insights into family relationships and the capricious nature of life, War Gardens offers a transfixing and absorbing tale with lessons for our own turbulent times.