An Unfinished Season: A Novel by Ward Just
	List Price:   $13.00 Unit Price:   $10.40 You Save:   $2.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   061856828X ISBN-13:   9780618568284 Publisher:   Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Mariner Books Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   May 2005 Pages:   256 Format:   Paperback
Subjects
CHICAGO (ILL.)_FICTION FICTION_SAGAS
Description/Notes
In his summer before college, Wils finds himself straddling three worlds: the working-class newsroom where he's landed a coveted job as a rookie reporter, the whirl of glittering North Shore debutante parties where he spends his nights, and the growing cold war between his parents at home. '['An Unfinished Season] is one of Just's finest novels.' Set in Eisenhower-era Chicago, this brilliant work evokes a city, an epoch, and a shift in ideals through the closely observed story of 19-year-old Wilson Ravan. 'The winter of the year my father carried a gun for his own protection was the coldest on record in Chicago.' So begins Ward Just's < I>An Unfinished Season< /I>, the winter in question a postwar moment of the 1950s when the modern world lay just over the horizon. It was a time of rabid anticommunism, worker unrest, and government corruption that even the small-town family could not escape.< P>Available only in Americana 4 & 5.