Etta and Otto and Russell and James
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Etta and Otto and Russell and James
AUTHOR:
Hooper, Emma.
ISBN:
9780241003343
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Penguin Books Ltd, 2015.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
278 p. ; 20 cm
ABSTRACT:
"This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall in love with her: Russell, a city boy who takes to farming despite his twisted leg, and Otto, who struggles in school but always tries hard - even when he's sent to fight a war in a distant land. It is a story of love and joy, pain and passion, memory and forgetting - and one incredible journey. It is the story of Etta and Otto and Russell and James."-- Back cover.
SUBJECT:
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. |
| Older women -- Fiction. |
| Friendship -- Fiction. |
| Memory -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
"This is a love story that spans fifty years, three lives, two continents and an ocean. It tells of school teacher Etta, who settles in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression and of the two pupils who fall in love with her: Russell, a city boy who takes to farming despite his twisted leg, and Otto, who struggles in school but always tries hard - even when he's sent to fight a war in a distant land. It is a story of love and joy, pain and passion, memory and forgetting - and one incredible journey. It is the story of Etta and Otto and Russell and James."--