The women : a novel / Kristin Hannah.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250178633
- Physical Description: 471 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
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Subject: | Nurses > Fiction. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Fiction. Young women > Fiction. United States > Armed Forces > Nurses > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 7 of 69 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 0 of 1 copy available at Nakusp Public Library. (Show)
Holds
- 89 current holds with 69 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Nakusp Public Library | FIC HAN (Text) | 35160000828468 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-08 |
100 Mile House Branch | HAN (Text) | 33923006649382 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-24 |
Alexis Creek Branch | HAN (Text) | 33923006681286 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-10 |
Beaver Valley Public Library | F HAN (Text) | 35144000263702 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-12 |
Big Lake Branch | HAN (Text) | 33923006641793 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-23 |
Burns Lake Public Library | AF HAN (Text) | 35198000784133 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC HAN (Text) | 35146002360956 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-09-27 |
Chetwynd Public Library | FIC HAN (Text) | 35222001125029 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-15 |
Creston Public Library | FIC HAN (Text)
Acquisition Type: New |
35140100132631 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-15 |
Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | F HAN (Text) | DCL177970 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-10-15 |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2024 January #1
*Starred Review* Frankie McGrath is just 20 when she enlists in the army to go to Vietnam as a nurse in 1965, planning to follow in the footsteps of her older brother, Finley. Frankie's parents are dismayed by her decision, even more so once they get the horrible news that Finley has been killed in action. Frankie deploys to Vietnam and is quickly overwhelmed by the horrors of war, but with the help of two new friends, Barb and Ethel, and a handsome doctor, Jamie, she adjusts to the rigors of nursing in a war zone. Her attraction to Jamie is stymied by complications, then she finds love with her brother's best friend, a charming pilot named Rye. When Frankie's service comes to an end, she is distressed when she returns to the States to find that Vietnam vets are not lauded as heroes and that many vets don't acknowledge the service of military women. As she grapples with PTSD and finds her place in antiwar protests, Frankie is dealt a terrible blow. Hannah (The Four Winds, 2021) continues her winning streak of compelling historical novels, capturing the tumultuous atmosphere of the 1960s and '70s in a moving, gripping tale that pays tribute to the under-appreciated skill and courage of combat nurses.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Hannah's popularity ensures enormous interest in each new novel, and the unusual historical context and focus of this one will stir up additional curiosity. Copyright 2024 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2023 December #1
A young woman's experience as a nurse in Vietnam casts a deep shadow over her life. When we learn that the farewell party in the opening scene is for Frances "Frankie" McGrath's older brotherâ"a golden boy, a wild child who could make the hardest heart soften"âwho is leaving to serve in Vietnam in 1966, we feel pretty certain that poor Finley McGrath is marked for death. Still, it's a surprise when the fateful doorbell rings less than 20 pages later. His death inspires his sister to enlist as an Army nurse, and this turn of events is just the beginning of a roller coaster of a plot that's impressive and engrossing if at times a bit formulaic. Hannah renders the experiences of the young women who served in Vietnam in all-encompassing detail. The first half of the book, set in gore-drenched hospital wards, mildewed dorm rooms, and boozy officers' clubs, is an exciting read, tracking the transformation of virginal, uptight Frankie into a crack surgical nurse and woman of the world. Her tensely platonic romance with a married surgeon ends when his broken, unbreathing body is airlifted out by helicopter; she throws her pent-up passion into a wild affair with a soldier who happens to be her dead brother's best friend. In the second part of the book, after the war, Frankie seems to experience every possible bad break. A drawback of the story is that none of the secondary characters in her life are fully three-dimensional: Her dismissive, chauvinistic father and tight-lipped, pill-popping mother, her fellow nurses, and her various love interests are more plot devices than people. You'll wish you could have gone to Vegas and placed a bet on the endingâwhile it's against all the odds, you'll see it coming from a mile away. A dramatic, vividly detailed reconstruction of a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War. Copyright Kirkus 2023 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2023 September
In No. 1
Copyright 2023 Library Journal.New York Times best-selling Hannah'sThe Women , good-girl nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows her brother to Vietnam but finds herself unprepared for the brutality of war and the tumult of a divided United States when she returns home (one-million-copy first printing). Following the brightly receivedThe Ingenue , Prepub Alert. Copyright 2023 Library Journal - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2023 September #4
Hannah's emotionally charged page-turner (after
Copyright 2023 Publishers Weekly.The Four Winds ) centers on a young nurse whose life is changed by the Vietnam War. Before Frankie McGrath begins basic training for the Army in 1966, her older brother Finley is killed in action. Frankie excels as a surgical nurse in Vietnam and becomes close with fellow nurses Ethel and Barb. After Ethel's tour ends, Frankie and Barb gets assigned to the base at Pleiku, near the Cambodian border, where some of the heaviest fighting occurs. There, she reunites with Navy officer Rye Walsh, Finley's best friend, and they become lovers. When Frankie returns to the U.S., she's met with indifference for her service from her parents, who are still grieving her brother's death, and disdain from people who oppose the war. She leans on alcohol and drugs while struggling to acclimate to civilian life. Though the situations and dialogue can feel contrived (Rye, after announcing he's re-upping, says to Frankie at the close of a chapter, "I'm not leaving my girl"), Hannah's depictions of Frankie tending to wounded soldiers are urgent and eye-opening, and a reunion of the three nurses for Frankie's benefit is poignantly told. Fans of women's historicals will enjoy this magnetic wartime story.Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency (Feb.)