America was hard to find
Alcott, Kathleen2020
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Ecuador, 1969: An American expatriate, Fay Fern, sits in the corner of a restaurant, she and her young son Wright turned away from the television where Vincent Kahn becomes the first man to walk on the moon. Years earlier, Fay and Vincent meet at a pilots' bar in the Mojave Desert. Both seemed poised for reinvention - the married test pilot, Vincent, as an astronaut; the spurned child of privilege, Fay, as an activist. Their casual affair ends quickly, but its consequences linger. Though their lives split, their senses of purpose deepen in tandem, each becoming heroes to different sides of the political spectrum of the 1960s and 70s: Vincent an icon with no plan beyond the mission for which he has single-mindedly trained, Fay a leader of a violent leftist group whose anti-Vietnam actions make her one of the FBI's most wanted.
Main title:
America was hard to find / Kathleen Alcott.
Author:
Alcott, Kathleen, author
Imprint:
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020.
Collation:
417 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Ecco, 2019.
ISBN:
9781474614542 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
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BRN:
466574
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