Love Among the Ruins
A Novel
by Robert Clark
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9780393020151,
Hardcover,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
2001
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9781400030309,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
2002
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Publisher Notes
When William Lowry writes to Emily Byrne–I don’t know if you know that you know me–the seventeen-year-old hardly suspects that his life, along with the rest of America, is about to change forever. But the day Emily receives the letter and composes a response–I know who you are. In fact, I remember you from a bunch of times–is also the day that Robert Kennedy is shot. In Minnesota, even as the tumultuous summer of 1968 has begun, first love cares little for matters of time and place.
William and Emily fall hard, despite the fact that he and his family are determined to wrestle with the system while she and hers are conservative, God-fearing Catholics. Together, the young lovers grow into each other and decide to escape to the wilderness to start anew. Left behind to grapple with the shifting mores of the nation and the sundering of their families, the Lowrys and the Byrnes must search for both their children and their own lost innocence.
Masterfully rendering both young love and the unrest of the 1960s Robert Clark has crafted a work that is at once intimate and grand.
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"A foray into the 'war summer' of 1968 that illuminates well the complexities, sensibilities, and passions of the time, if stumbling a bit in the storytelling."
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