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"A richly colorful novel," said the New York Times, but in the author's home town, the bookstore manager kept it under the counter and sold it only to those who dared ask for it. Woodstock was still four years in the future, and American students were more concerned about nuclear weapons than a war in Vietnam. But already there was something blowing in the wind, as the young Daniel Ford was among the first to document in his debut novel. "It is impossible not to keep on watching them," said The New Yorker of his heroine and his anti-heroes, and the Los Angeles Times agreed: "An effervescent eye-opener."
About the author
Daniel Ford was educated by the University of New Hampshire and the U.S. Army. Afterwards, he worked as a reporter while writing fiction in off-moments--often enough, riding a train through Germany to cover a court-martial for The Overseas Weekly. This was his first published novel, set in a college community like the one that eventually became his home town. Today, he writes about the planes, pilots, and politics of World War II and the Cold War. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Britain, Stern Foundation grantee in Vietnam, Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution, and Resident Scholar at the University of New Hampshire. At the age of 68, he learned to fly a Piper Cub almost as old as he was.
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