New York, NY: Doubleday (2005)

First Edition. Signed.

Near fine in dust jacket.

From award-winning novelist Alexander Parsons comes a vivid chronicle of the traumatic impact of WWII on an American family at the dawn of the nuclear age. Set in the high desert badlands of New Mexico and the ravaged, war-torn landscape of the Philippine jungle, IN THE SHADOWS OF THE SUN tells the story of a New Mexican ranching family--the Stricklands--struggling to hold on to their way of life in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, while their son, Jack Strickland endures the horrors of the Bataan Death March. In the tradition of Hampton Sides' "Ghost Soldiers and Tim O'Brien's "If I Die in a Combat Zone, Alexander Parsons writes with haunting power about the effects of war. The result is an unforgettable novel, re-creating America's journey through the war and the postwar period, a passage lit by the fierce glare of the atomic bomb.