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407 pages, Hardcover
First published May 30, 2023
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"My mother, Phyllis Irene, had roots in Manhattan and the Bronx and Staten Island's Richmond Village; her mother owned an antiques shop on Broadway; and she spent many early and last years in Mattituck. All places foreign to me." "Mom died in April of 1990. She had a Bible and a Julia Child cookbook beside her in her bed." "Today, I know when I looked at her, I saw only Ma; but she saw herself as a Manhattan movie star with a fizzy cocktail in one hand and a fashionable cigarette holder in the other, and she was amusing a gathering of sophisticates as Bobby Short's piano jazz played and everyone called each other 'dahling.' She was not trapped in a barrio apartment or a San Diego suburb that felt like a desert to her. And she forever saw herself as that vibrant woman in cataclysms of laughter."
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'Good Night, Irene' review: ... Urrea is celebrated for his books about the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly his nonfiction work, The Devil's Highway, which was a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
The novel is much stronger where it homes in on Irene's experience. During the Battle of the Bulge, in January 1945, Irene and Dorothy take a bottle of Champagne to gunners operating a howitzer ...
Luis Alberto Urrea. 4.15. 17,500 ratings2,346 reviews. In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe.
Part fairy tale, part political thriller, part romance, the novel unfolds like a winter tree bursting into unnatural bloom in response to one of Luzia's refranes, as she and Santángel learn about power, trust, betrayal, and love. Lush, gorgeous, precise language and propulsive plotting sweep readers into a story as intelligent as it is ...
The magic of these brief encounters is captured beautifully in " Good Night, Irene," a new novel by Luis Alberto Urrea, a prolific writer of fiction and nonfiction best known for his gripping ...
Good Night, Irene. by Luis Alberto Urrea. Publication Date: June 4, 2024. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 432 pages. Publisher: Back Bay Books. ISBN-10: 0316265950. ISBN-13: 9780316265959. This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman's heroic ...
Although such romantic moments are lackluster, the combat sequences are a thrill to read. Urrea writes memorable descriptions of war that strike the reader with devastating immediacy, such as when soldiers flirt with Irene one moment and die bleeding in the street seconds later. Good Night, Irene is strongest when Urrea shows the toll that war ...
GH+ Readers Weigh In. Good Night, Irene: A Novel. Now 43% Off. $17 at Amazon. Reviewers loved that Urrea drew from his personal history for this book, which led some to feel even closer to the ...
A&E; Books; Book review: In "Good Night, Irene," Luis Alberto Urrea brings women's stories from World War II front and center Sat., July 1, 2023
Good Night, Irene. by Luis Alberto Urrea. Publication Date: June 4, 2024. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 432 pages. Publisher: Back Bay Books. ISBN-10: 0316265950. ISBN-13: 9780316265959. In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe.
The author's mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin. Award-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea describes Good Night, Irene (Little, Brown, 2023) as "the book I have spent most of my life preparing to write." This novel is inspired by his mother, Phyllis Irene McLaughlin, and by Jill Pitts Knappenberger for their work in World War II as part of the American Red Cross Clubmobile Service.
Bound to become a classic of war fiction. Urrea provides a loving portrait of women asked to do the impossible. It's a complex portrait of what happens to those tender souls who learn to don armor against daily horrors only to find themselves trapped in an emotional iron cage. Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea has an overall rating of ...
In the book's early pages, a soldier who's come home tells Irene: "If you get to come home, you will be so grateful you won't realize at first that you survived. But once you know you survived, you'll only be starting to understand.". A young and inexperienced Irene can't yet understand the soldier's words, but she will reflect ...
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The 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for "The Devil's Highway" re-creates the time and place beautifully but allows room for surprise, building to the novel's crescendo. "Good Night, Irene" is a fleet ...
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New York Times Book Review " Good Night, Irene paints a touching portrait of female friendship and valor in wartime. ... Urrea newest book, Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration his mother's own Red Cross service. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully ...
Powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal, Good Night, Irene is a story of survival, camaraderie, and courage on the front line." —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds "Every once in a while the universe opens its heart and pulls out a book like this novel, gifting it to the cosmos.
Editorial Reviews ★ 03/06/2023. Urrea (The House of Broken Angels) transports readers to the Western Front of WWII in his stunning latest.Irene Woodward, a tough New Yorker, covers up the bruises received from her abusive fiancé with concealer and sweaters, throws her engagement ring down the drain, and joins America's war effort as a member of the Red Cross Clubmobile.
An Amazon Best Book of June 2023: In House of Broken Angels, Luis Alberto Urrea joyously presented a sprawling Mexican-American family who came together to celebrate the patriarch's birthday, and while his latest eschews a generational story for the punch of female gumption during WWII, Good Night, Irene is inspired by family history.During WWII, Urrea's mother served in the Clubmobile ...
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In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at ...