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In Germany in 1953, a seventeen-year-old American soldier serving in the occupation falls in love for the first time - with the beautiful, war-torn country, and with a sophisticated (and married) woman. Thirty-five years later, the force of this enchantment has lifted Glen Cady from a bleak job on a Michigan assembly line into a world he never could have imagined as a young PFC. A professor of German literature at a small New Hampshire college, he is married, with a beloved daughter in nursery school, and presumably living the life of his dreams. But his devotion as a teacher, he now…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2000University of New Hampshire Press · 397 pages · 9781611681284
- Other · English · 1996University Press of New England · 386 pages · 9780874517668
- Other · English · 1994Alfred A. Knopf · 386 pages · 9780679430995
College teachersFictionGerman teachersMiddle-aged menVeteransWorld War, 1939-1945Fiction, generalNew hampshire, fiction








