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Crooked River Burning
Crooked River Burning
Crooked River Burning
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Crooked River Burning

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In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet-and fall in love-four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair will be reluctant star-crossed lovers in a troubled and turbulent country. A natural-born storyteller, Mark Winegardner spins an epic tale of those twenty years, artfully weaving such real-life Clevelanders as Eliot Ness, Alan Freed, and Carl Stokes into the tapestry. His narrative gifts may bring the fiction of E. L. Doctorow to some readers' minds, but Winegardner is very much his own man, and his observations of Cleveland are laced with a loving skepticism. His masterful saga of this conflicted city is a novel that speaks a memorable truth.

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Release dateNov 23, 2021
ISBN9780358541325
Crooked River Burning
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Mark Winegardner

Mark Winegardner is the author of the novel The Veracruz Blues and three books of nonfiction. A regular contributor to GQ, he has also published work in the New York Times Magazine, Playboy, Esquire, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Doubletake, and other magazines. He is a professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he lives with his wife and daughter.

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    Having grown up in Cleveland I found this book very interesting. I'm not sure I would have read it otherwise, but I'm glad I did. It kept me engaged until the end and I did care about the protagonists portrayed. I loved trying to pick out little details within that clearly illustrated that the author was from Cleveland.
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    Winegardner matched history with fiction so perfectly that I kept wanting to Google the characters to see what they’re up to now.

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Crooked River Burning - Mark Winegardner

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