The Half Life

A Novel

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<b>From the author of <i>Florence Adler Swims Forever </i>and <i>The House Is on Fire</i>, a novel set on an Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.</b><br> <br> <b>"A romantic maelstrom of struggle, politics, and perseverance." —<i>Richmond Magazine</i></b><br><br>“A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it.” —Clare Leslie Hall, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Broken Country</i><br> <br>When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But Paul is funny and ambitious, and soon, Eileen’s got a ring on her finger and is following him to the tiny, sun-drenched Mediterranean island of La Maddalena, where Paul will be heading up Radiological Controls aboard a submarine tender.<br> <br>In La Maddalena, Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, <i>home</i> is a loaded word, and as she settles into life on the island—taking Italian lessons and learning to make <i>culurgiones</i>—she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from.<br> <br>Still, it doesn’t take long for Eileen to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. The decision to send nuclear-powered subs into the La Maddalena Archipelago was a contentious one, and the US government is doing whatever it can to ensure that the island—not to mention all of Italy—doesn’t go communist in the next election.<br> <br>When Italian activists and scientists begin to sound the alarm about possible nuclear contamination in the water, the island erupts in a series of protests, made worse by the ongoing mishaps of the US Navy. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781668069134

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

233 x 161 x 37 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon + Schuster LLC