| International Standard Book Number |
9781668069134
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| International Standard Book Number |
166806913X
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668069141
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668069148
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| Personal Name |
Beanland, Rachel, author.
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| Title Statement |
The half life : a novel / Rachel Beanland.
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| Edition Statement |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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| Publisher |
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
463 pages ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island, about a navy wife's reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O'Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn't expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen's got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender. In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of Navy wives, who are hell bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, and as she settles into life on the island-taking Italian lessons and learning to make culurgiones--she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from. Still, it doesn't take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. The decision to send nuclear-powered subs into the La Maddalena Archipelago was a contentious one, and the US government is doing whatever it can to ensure that the island-not to mention all of Italy-doesn't go communist in the next election. When Italian activists and scientists begin to sound the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water, the island erupts in a series of protests, made worse by the ongoing mishaps of the US Navy. Soon, Eileen's marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets-and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she's been handed"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Americans Italy.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Married people.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Islands.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nuclear submarines Italy.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Navy spouses.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
La Maddalena (Maddalena Island, Italy)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Military fiction. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction. lcgft.
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