The Home by L Wade Powers
What is family and what is a home? The answers are as varied as the characters of The Home.
In the mid 1950s, teenage culture emerges, rock 'n roll arrives, and Walt, a naive, introverted thirteen-year old, enters an institution for children of working mothers and foster home transfers. The dormitory environment accelerates the adolescent development of the residents and exaggerates their social interactions as group loyalty challenges individual integrity. Walt adapts and survives in a semi-isolated world of triumphs and tragedies, including communal retaliation, sexual awakening, junior high exploits, and a growing awareness of a nostalgic-laden future.
Powers, L. Wade: - L. Wade Powers has published books and articles in the fields of medical technology, ecology, marine biology, and animal behavior under the name Lawrence W. Powers, PhD. He authored a critique of The Winter of Our Discontent for Steinbeck Review and several articles for The Oregon Encyclopedia Online. He is a contributing editor for the Journal of the Shaw Historical Library and served as creative nonfiction editor for Timberline Review for two years. As L. Wade Powers, he has published two novels, The Home (2017) and The Party House (2019), and two collections of short stories: Falling in Love and Other Misadventures (2019) and Confronting the Boundaries (2020). A revised edition of The Home was published in November 2019. This novel, his first historical fiction, is based on fifteen years of research on Francis Drake and his 1579 visit to the West Coast of North America. He is currently at work on a fourth novel. A retired professor of natural sciences, Larry lives in Eastern Oregon with his wife, Alla, with the gracious permission of their cat, Mollie. He is a member of the Northwest Association Independent Writers Association (NIWA) and Willamette Writers. For further information about the author and his works, please visit lwadepowers.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781643882512 |
| ISBN 10 | 1643882511 |
| Title | The Home |
| Author | L Wade Powers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lawrence Wade Powers |
| Year published | 2019-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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