Poster Girl
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-593-7 (ISBN)
Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR's Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America's winning World War II - and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn't want those women at work. During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover's secret post-Pearl Harbor mission - and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed. Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders - before the murderer harms another girl and America's best chance of winning the war.
Shelley Blanton Stroud grew up in California’s Central Valley. She recently retired from teaching writing at Sacramento State University and still consults with writers in the energy industry. She also serves as President of the Board of 916 Ink, an arts-based creative writing nonprofit for children; serves on the Board of Advisors for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna College; and previously codirected Stories on Stage Sacramento. Poster Girl is her third Jane Benjamin novel, following Copy Boy and Tomboy. Her writing has been a finalist in the Sarton Book Awards, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award, the American Fiction Awards, and the National Indie Excellence Awards. Shelley and her husband live in Sacramento, California, surrounded by photos of their out-of-town sons and their wonderful partners, and a lifetime of beloved dogs.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.09.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64742-593-X / 164742593X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64742-593-7 / 9781647425937 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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