Good Night, Irene: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n An Instant\u00a0New York Times\u00a0Bestseller<\/p>\n This \u201cpowerful, uplifting, and deeply personal\u00a0novel\u201d\u00a0(Kristin Hannah, #1\u00a0NYT\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Four Winds), at once\u00a0\u201ca heart-wrenching wartime drama\u201d\u00a0(Christina Baker Kline, #1\u00a0NYT\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0Orphan Train) and \u201ca moving and graceful tribute to heroic women\u201d (Publishers Weekly, starred review), asks the question: What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever?<\/p>\n In the tradition of\u00a0The Nightingale\u00a0and\u00a0Transcription, this is a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of courageous\u00a0Red Cross women. <\/p>\n \u201cUrrea\u2019s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.\u201d \u2014Financial Times<\/p>\n In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fianc\u00e9 in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle. User Rating: 4.5 (based on 2365 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB Good Night, Irene: A Novel by Luis Alberto Urrea<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: .epub<\/em><\/p>\n
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After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact.
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Taking as inspiration his mother\u2019s own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women\u2019s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea\u2019s \u201cgifts as a storyteller are prodigious\u201d (NPR).. May 30, 2023. #-ebook #-epub #read #download<\/p>\n