Good night, Irene
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
This “powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel” (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Four Winds), at once “a heart-wrenching wartime drama” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train) and “a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), asks the question: What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever?
In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, this is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of courageous Red Cross women.
“Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” —Financial Times
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 the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact.
Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR).
Female friendship -- Fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
Literature
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Red Cross
Red Cross and Red Crescent
Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Volunteer workers in medical care
Volunteer workers in medical care -- Europe -- 20th century -- Fiction
War fiction
War work
Women
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Red Cross -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
9780316571913
9780316266055
9781668617007
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Grouping Title | good night irene |
Grouping Author | luis alberto urrea |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2023-09-22 11:43:27AM |
Last Indexed | 2023-09-22 11:44:22AM |
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Historical fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Fiction
Romance fiction
Volunteer workers in medical care -- Europe -- 20th century -- Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Red Cross -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction
Good night, Irene / Luis Alberto Urrea
Fiction
Historical Fiction
Literature
Man-woman relationships
Red Cross
Red Cross and Red Crescent
Volunteer workers in medical care
War work
Women
World War, 1939-1945
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