Four Freedoms

A Novel

No cover

John Crowley: Four Freedoms (2010, Harper Perennial)

Paperback, 400 pages

Published May 18, 2010 by Harper Perennial.

ISBN:
978-0-06-123151-3
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
456179759

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (1 review)

One of the most admired and honored of our contemporary literary artists, author John Crowley now brilliantly re-creates a time in America when ordinary people were asked to sacrifice their comforts and uproot their lives for the cause of freedom.In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to war, the call goes out for builders of the machinery necessary to defeat the enemy. To this purpose, a city has sprung up seemingly overnight in the windswept fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the B-30 Pax, the largest bomber ever built. Laborers—some men, but mostly women, many of whom have never operated a rivet gun or held a screwdriver—flock to this place, eager to earn, to grow, to do their part. Many are away from home for the very first time, enticed by the opportunity …

3 editions

Subjects

  • Literature & Fiction -- Genre Fiction -- Historical
  • Literature & Fiction -- Literary