Good evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea
a novel
by Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch's new novel is a comedy of innocence that is by turns funny and moving, gently nostalgic and profound. Set in 1964, the year after JFK's assassination, the story turns on young Walter Marshall, a devout, idealistic, amiable nineteen-year-old who lives at home with his mother and attends radio broadcasting school at night. Like many young men of the time, Walter has been stirred by the example of the recently martyred president, and has decided upon a life in politics.
In fact, he has set his sights on the White House. There only remain the roughly twenty years of living to do before he can take up the torch.
- And Walter has some important lessons to learn, several of them involving women... The story of this sheltered young man's very-much-less-than-suave fumbling toward manhood unfolds against the backdrop of powerful descriptions of a country in the midst of great change.
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Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea
2008, HarperCollins
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in English
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Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea: Novel, A
October 15, 1997, Harper Perennial
in English
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Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea: Novel, A
October 15, 1997, Harper Perennial
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in English
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Good evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea
1997, Thorndike Press
in English
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Good evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea: a novel
1996, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
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"The other students still enrolled in the D'Allessandro School for Broadcasting in the fall of 1964 had heavy responsibilities and worries, and were making sacrifices to come to school."
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The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch's Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea.His hardover sales have also never been higher. Taking its title from Walter Winchell's famous radio salutation, Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America opens in Washington, DC, in 1964, just after the Kennedy assassination, telling the story of Walter Marshall, an idealistic 19-year-old who lives with his widowed mother and studies to be a journalist like his hero, Edward R. Murrow. In this coming-of-age novel in the truest sense of the phrase, young Marshall fumbles toward manhood in a nation that is itself in the midst of cataclysmic change.With the same elegance and precision that has distinguished his other novels, Richard Bausch has evoked a sense of time and place in a different America and brings the last 30 years of history profoundly and vividly to life.
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