As the war in Vietnam is drawing to a close, Bill, a navy lieutenant with blue-collar roots, meets Mary, a doctor and anti-war daughter from one of Beacon Hill's oldest families. A tender story of love and redemption that will make you pause and touch you deeply, perhaps even change you. (Awarded the Gold Medal for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America) 71,000 words
As the war in Vietnam is drawing to a close, Bill, a navy lieutenant with blue-collar roots, meets Mary, a doctor and anti-war daughter from one of Beacon Hill's oldest families. A tender story of love and redemption that will make you pause and touch you deeply, perhaps even change you. (Awarded the Gold Medal for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America) 71,000 words