portada Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (en Inglés)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

André Lewis Carter

Editorial

Kaylie Jones Books

Año

2022

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.6x13.2x2.8 cm

Peso

0.32 kg.

ISBN13

9781617758775

Categorías

Relativo a los afroamericanos
Ficción: general y literaria
Novelas de aventuras militares, de guerra y de combate
Ficción histórica

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (en Inglés)

André Lewis Carter (Autor) · Kaylie Jones Books · Tapa Blanda

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"Skillfully blending his fictional hero's coming-of-age story with a real-life racial confrontation aboard ship, Carter's tale is a winning combination of military procedural, suspense, and Black history." --Booklist, Starred Review "Taking its title from a nautical term for a conundrum, the novel is a coming-of-age and redemption story about two young Black men going through boot camp, training school and their first assignments in an early 1970s Navy struggling with racism and sexism." --The Oregonian The Vietnam War is raging, the US Navy has only recently begun the process of integration, and the country is reeling from racial turmoil and unrest. So why does César, a street-tough kid of Afro-Cuban descent, enlist in the navy? He is on the run from a life of crime and from Mr. Mike, a charismatic, sociopathic gangster who was once a mentor but has now turned on him. Escaping into a navy wrestling with its history of racism and sexism, César soon sees the absurdity of certain prejudices that seem as old as the US Armed Forces. When he is deployed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk, racial tensions are high and are moving quickly toward violence. Through it all, César's ever-growing sense of honor and self-worth force him to make moral decisions he never knew he was capable of. It's a fortitude he will desperately need.