After the War - Hardcover

Picking up where A Southern Exposure ended, this final novel by the acclaimed late author describes life in the small Southern town of Pinehill during World War II, as Harry Baird takes off for London to aid the war effort, daughter Abigail heads off to college, and Cynthia finds her life complicated by loneliness, the local racism and anti-Semitism, and a growing fear of Communism. 20,000 first printing.

is considered to be one of the major American writers of the last thirty years. Her stories appeared in The New Yorker from 1969 and 1995, as well as in twenty-two O. Henry Awards collections and several volumes of Best American Short Stories. After the War is her eleventh and final novel--the brilliant coda to a brilliant career.

After the War begins where her acclaimed novel A Southern Exposure ended: in the small Southern town of Pinehill during World War II. With all the insight and grace that have marked her writing, she brings us close to Cynthia and Harry Baird, transplanted Yankees who moved south from Connecticut during the Depression to find a simpler world for themselves and their daughter, Abigail. But life in Pinehill has become more difficult since the beginning of the war: with Harry off in London to do his share, Cynthia finds her life complicated not only by her own loneliness but also by a growing awarenes