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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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Cover; Welcome; Title Page; Dedication; Thursday; Friday; Saturday; Sunday; Monday; Tuesday; Acknowledgments; A Preview of ""Devastation Road; About the Author; Books by Jason Hewitt; Praise for Jason Hewitt's "The Dynamite Room"; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright |
| Summary |
It was all her doing. She had cried wolf, and the wolf had come. It's July 1940, and eleven-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives in her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty, the windows covered by black-out blinds but Lydia settles in, determined to wait there until they return. Late that night he comes: a wounded soldier, gun in hand, heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, the man explains, certain rules that Lydia must now follow. He says he won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house.As the unlikely pair coexists in the claustrophobic confines of the house, each becomes dependent on the other for survival. But when Lydia tries to uncover what brought the soldier to her door, she realizes that he knows more than he should about her familý⁰4and that he's plotting something for them both.Eerie, gripping, and piercingly sad, The Dynamite Room brings a strikingly original and contemporary resonance to the great tradition of war classics. It shrinks the global theater of history's most devastating war to a game of cat and mouse played out in a single housé⁰4resulting in a moving portrait of war and how it affects soldiers and citizens alike. |
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Fleeing her life as a child evacuee in 1940 Wales, eleven-year-old Lydia returns to her abandoned English village and resolves to wait for her family's return at the side of a wounded soldier who harbors a dangerous secret. |
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| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
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World War, 1939 -- England -- Suffolk -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Wales -- Fiction.
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Children -- Fiction.
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Soldiers -- Fiction.
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Children. |
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Soldiers. |
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Wales. |
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Suspense fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hewitt, Jason. Dynamite room London : Simon & Schuster, 2014 9781471127403 |
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Hewitt, Jason. Dynamite room New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015 9780316327657 (NjBwBT)bl2015009517 (OCoLC)883650210 |
| ISBN |
9780316327640 : $78.00 |
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0316327646 : $78.00 |
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