The Red Squad
Author: Broner, Esther
ISBN: 9780307455840
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
E.M. Broner deftly balances the sweet and the serious in this affectionate novel following the interwoven lives of a group of Midwestern liberals who were under surveillance in the 1960s. ANCHOR. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.
A wonderfully comic novel about the interwoven lives of a group of 1960s grad students who, forty years later, learn that they were under FBI surveillance during their activist days.
There's Anka, who enraged the right-thinking newspaper with her outspoken politics; Kevin, a priest in the process of formally leaving the church; "The Farmer," an unhappy father and husband; Noble, the gay poet; Ron, the black professor of Victorian studies; and the irrepressible Bernstein, who yearned to start again in the promised land of Israel. One became a spy, one became a fugitive. And when their long lost comrade resurfaces, his plight reunites them in a glorious, unexpected finale that collides past and present.
ISBN: 9780307455840
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Aug 2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
E.M. Broner deftly balances the sweet and the serious in this affectionate novel following the interwoven lives of a group of Midwestern liberals who were under surveillance in the 1960s. ANCHOR. FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.
A wonderfully comic novel about the interwoven lives of a group of 1960s grad students who, forty years later, learn that they were under FBI surveillance during their activist days.
There's Anka, who enraged the right-thinking newspaper with her outspoken politics; Kevin, a priest in the process of formally leaving the church; "The Farmer," an unhappy father and husband; Noble, the gay poet; Ron, the black professor of Victorian studies; and the irrepressible Bernstein, who yearned to start again in the promised land of Israel. One became a spy, one became a fugitive. And when their long lost comrade resurfaces, his plight reunites them in a glorious, unexpected finale that collides past and present.
