French Letters: Engaged in War HIS036100 shows up on her doorstep

shows up on her doorstep -- a Southern gentleman in need of a savior

Kim Addonizio is the author of several acclaimed poetry collections

In this exquisite book

Ana Blandiana

But this is no ordinary counterattack

French Letters: Engaged in War HIS036100 shows up on her doorstepA landing beach in France, exploding under fire and littered with wounded men. Grim surgeries performed in a captured pillbox, in an orchard, inside a Calvados distillery barn. A crumpled glider falling out of a hedgerow. And G raldine Dupr , a young French woman who was not pretty, not exactly, but pleasant enough to look at. This is the war of Will Hastings, a green Army doctor, five thousand miles away from Virginia Sullivan, his former girlfriend