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Love and War in California.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Hall's new novel comprises three discrete sections. The first, "Gates of Bone," follows the narrator, Payton Daltrey, from his time as a college student and aspiring writer in San Diego, in the months after Pearl Harbor, to his enlistment in the Army. The second section consists of snapshots of his war experiences, at the Battle of the Bulge and the freeing of Frigga. The third charts his success, forty years later, as ...

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