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001			ocn862789224
003			OCoLC
005			20140811143623.0
008			140103s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2014000147
020			_a9781476710792 (hbk.)
020			_a1476710791 (hbk.)
040			_aDLC _erda _beng _cDLC _dIG# _dBTCTA _dBDX _dUPZ _dOCLCO
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050	0	0	_aPS3552.U723 _bW39 2014
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100	1		_aBurke, James Lee, _d1936- _92242
245	1	0	_aWayfaring stranger _ba novel /
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
300			_a435 pages ; _c25 cm
520			_a"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all"--
520			_a"WAYFARING STRANGER begins in West Texas in 1934. At age sixteen, Weldon Holland encounters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker traveling with their accomplices after having just pulled off one of their notorious armed robberies. Weldon is smitten by Bonnie, but because of Clyde and Bonnie's duplicity and the disrespect they show his grandfather, Weldon ends up putting a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. The story then jumps to 1944 and the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, where Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland saves his sergeant, Hershel Pine, from death by suffocation when he is buried alive in his foxhole under the treads of a Waffen SS Tiger tank. Weldon and Hershel survive the executions of the wounded by the SS and escape on a freight train deep into Nazi Germany. There, they stumble into an extermination camp deserted by the SS, and discover among the stacked bodies a young woman named Rosita Lowenstein, who is not only a remarkable woman but a relative of Rosa Luxemburg (known as "Red Rosa," whose mother's name was Lowenstein). Eventually, Weldon will make her his bride, and the three friends will return to Texas to seek their fortunes. But when Weldon, Hershel, and Rosita form a pipeline corporation, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--one of the wealthiest men in Texas and a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare"--
650		0	_aJewish women _vFiction. _95941
650		0	_aOil industries _vFiction. _95942
650		0	_aAntisemitism _vFiction. _95943
650		7	_aFICTION / Suspense. _2bisacsh _91655
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh _91549
650		7	_aFICTION / General. _2bisacsh _95944
651		0	_aTexas _xHistory _y1846-1950 _vFiction. _95945
655		0	_aHistorical fiction. _95946
655		0	_aSuspense fiction. _95947
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd _95948
655		7	_aSuspense fiction. _2gsafd _95949
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