Críticas:
""Four Freedoms".perfectly captures an era-WWII America-when the chosen are overseas and the left-behind are granted a rare moment of possibility. Crowley's extraordinary characters and the poignant, funny, disturbing ways they find to connect with one another make you wish this war would never end." -- San Francisco Chronicle, Top-Shelf Fiction Pick
"Four Freedoms".perfectly captures an era WWII America when the chosen are overseas and the left-behind are granted a rare moment of possibility. Crowley s extraordinary characters and the poignant, funny, disturbing ways they find to connect with one another make you wish this war would never end. --San Francisco Chronicle, Top-Shelf Fiction Pick
"One gets the feeling that Crowley loves observing women because he captures them so precisely and so intimately....FOUR FREEDOMS goes back in time... bringing us stories filled with love, loss, integrity, and heart."--www.about.com
"Brilliantly realized .... More rich, satisfying food for thought from one of America's most imaginative and accomplished novelists."--Kirkus Reviews on FOUR FREEDOMS
"Ultimately, the significance of "Four Freedoms" lies in its thoroughness, the sheer specificity. . . . The result is an accessible, painstakingly crafted work that offers many pleasures and rewards. It could be the novel that finally brings Crowley the wide attention he has long deserved."--Washington Post
""Four Freedoms" is so rich and so evocative and so authentic."--Tom Brokaw
"In a tricky narrative that weaves in and out of the novel's present (1942-5) and lavishly detailed flashbacks to the characters' earlier lives, Crowley creates a fascinating microcosm....More rich, satisfying food for thought from one of America's most imaginative and accomplished novelists."--Kirkus Reviews (pointer) for FOUR FREEDOMS
""Four Freedoms".perfectly captures an era--WWII America--when the chosen are overseas and the left-behind are granted a rare moment of possibility. Crowley's extraordinary characters and the poignant, funny, disturbing ways they find to connect with one another make you wish this war would never end."--San Francisco Chronicle, Top-Shelf Fiction Pick
Ultimately, the significance of "Four Freedoms" lies in its thoroughness, the sheer specificity. . . . The result is an accessible, painstakingly crafted work that offers many pleasures and rewards. It could be the novel that finally brings Crowley the wide attention he has long deserved. --Washington Post"
"Four Freedoms."perfectly captures an eraWWII Americawhen the chosen are overseas and the left-behind are granted a rare moment of possibility. Crowley s extraordinary characters and the poignant, funny, disturbing ways they find to connect with one another make you wish this war would never end. --San Francisco Chronicle, Top-Shelf Fiction Pick"
Reseña del editor:
His prospects improved by job opportunities at an Oklahoma plant where the world's largest bomber is being constructed, a disabled man earns the first comfortable income of his life and befriends a group of women who have had to leave their families behind to work at the plant. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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