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Author:

Carter, André Lewis, author.

Title:

Between the devil and the deep blue sea / André Lewis Carter.

Publisher:

Akashic Books,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

336 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

African American sailors--Fiction.
United States.--Navy--Fiction.--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Fiction.
Kitty Hawk (Aircraft carrier)--Fiction.
Race discrimination--United States--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
Redemption--Fiction.
Self-esteem--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.--20th century--Fiction.

Notes:

"A Kaylie Jones Book"--Cover.

Summary:

In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the Navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in US history.

ISBN:

1617758779
9781617758775

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1286847710

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)