Kristin Hannah
Autor(a) de The Nightingale
About the Author
Kristin Hannah was born in Southern California in September 1960. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in an advertising agency and practiced law in Seattle. Hannah and her mom began writing a novel together when her mother was suffering from cancer. When her mother died, she put the mostrar mais draft away and continued to practice law. While pregnant with her son, and on bed rest, she took out the draft that she and her mother had written and began to write in earnest. Her draft was done by the time she gave birth. In 1990, she became a published writer and has been writing ever since. She has won numerous awards including the Golden Heart, the Maggie and 1996 National Reader's Choice award. In 2004, she won the Rita Award for Best Novel: Between Sisters. Her title Winter Garden made the New York Times Bestseller List for 2011. Many of Hannah's other titles have made the New York Times Bestsellers List since then including: Night Road, Home Again, Home Front, Fly Away, The Nightingale, Comfort and Joy, True Colours, and The Great Alone. She has written a series entitled Girls of Firefly Lane which includes the books, Firefly Lane, and Fly Away. Two of her books are being made into feature films, The Nightingale, and Home Front. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again (2013) 6 exemplares
6 prachtige romans die de liefde omarmen 2 exemplares
Las mujeres de la guerra (Spanish Edition) 2 exemplares
America Is Speaking, When will Our Hearts Listen: When America Burn So Does Our Conscience 2 exemplares
Redemption 2 exemplares
Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour (2013) 1 exemplar
Secrets to die for 1 exemplar
As heroínas (Portuguese Edition) 1 exemplar
Menekülés Alaszkába 1 exemplar
Zdarzyło się nad jeziorem Mystic 1 exemplar
De vergeten vrouwen 1 exemplar
Home Front: First Chapter 1 exemplar
Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour 1 exemplar
Kristin Hannah - 4 Titles 1 exemplar
Para sempre (Seleções - Angel Falls) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Mothers & Daughters: Celebrating the Gift of Love in 12 New Stories (1998) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
With Love (Pieces of Dreams / Liars Moon / A Midsummer Day's Dream) (2002) — Contribuidor — 52 exemplares
The Kristin Hannah Collection: Reader's Digest Condensed Books Premium Editions (2012) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
Livros Condensados: Sepultado no Mar | Entre Irmãs | Lema: Não Confiar | Corrida Contra a Morte (2004) — Autor — 6 exemplares
Of Love and Life: Remember Me / Firefly Lane / The Birds & The Bees (2008) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Livros Condensados: Stinger | Lua Vazia | A Lágrima do Diabo | A Catarata do Anjo (1998) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Livros Condensados: Morte ao Mensageiro | Amor a Quanto Obrigas | Expedição Solitária | Rumo ao Sonho (2006) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Die Glasbläserin / Die Leopardin / Wenn Engel schweigen (2004) — Autor — 2 exemplares
Det Bästas Bokval (2002) vol 223: Bränd; Kvinnan i huset intill; Viskande vind; Viskar ditt namn — Autor — 1 exemplar
Of Love and Life: The Queen's Fool / Between Sisters / Safe Harbour — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Reader's Digest Select Editions: The Quiet Game / Angel Falls / Void Moon / The Innocents Within (2000) 1 exemplar
Livros Condensados: A ilha do medo | Para sempres | Reação em cadeia | O solar da tia Harriet — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Reader's Digest: Hornet Flight | Chesapeake Blue | No One To Trust | Distant Shores (2003) 1 exemplar
Kirjavaliot - Pahaa paossa, Siskoni mun, Murhaajan käsikirja, Yöllisen koiran merkillinen tapaus (2004) — Autor — 1 exemplar
Reader’s Digest : libros Selectos : Jardín invernal : La fortaleza del cielo : Rainwater : Endal (1996) — Autor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1960-09-25
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Garden Grove, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- California, USA
Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Ocupações
- lawyer
novelist - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Romantic Times Career Achievement Award (Contemporary Novel, 2004)
Membros
Discussions
An Author Interview with Kristin Hannah em Talk about LibraryThing (Fevereiro 5)
deaf woman, dies too early, given choice of new body em Name that Book (Setembro 2015)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 64
- Also by
- 39
- Membros
- 50,818
- Popularidade
- #300
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 2,287
- ISBN
- 891
- Línguas
- 23
- Marcado como favorito
- 81
Frankie McGrath grew up in a strict Catholic household where military service was honored on a “wall of heroes” in the family library. So when her brother Finley enlisted as a Navy helicopter pilot, she decided to follow him in one of the few ways women could, by becoming a nurse. After completing nurses training, she enlisted in the Army, where she could go to Vietnam right away, ill-prepared as she was, leaving her parents in shock. The only “heroes” were men.
But she wouldn’t follow her brother. She would take the place of one who died in a helicopter crash in which no remains could be recovered. And soon she would discover that this was only the tip of the iceberg. She arrives at mildewed quarters amid a mass casualty event. She sees mangled bodies of young men and blood thick on the floors. Nurses Barb and Ethel, who become steadfast friends, walk her through it. A skilled surgeon, Jamie, teaches her step by step how to close wounds and perform procedures to save lives nurses would not ordinarily perform. She not only becomes good, she discovers a calling. Some men live because of what she does. She comforts many in their dying moments.
She re-ups when her friends go home to help the younger nurses. But something is wrong. The war is escalating and young men rushed into service come in droves to her evac. One day, napalm victims come to the hospital and she holds a napalm burned child as it dies. She watches Jamie, wounded severely under attack take off in a helicopter and a medic stopping CPR.. She falls in love with a helicopter pilot, Rye, who she learns died just before he was due to come home.
The second part of the book is about what happened after her tour ended and she returned home. People curse and spit on her when she arrives at the airport. Her parents don’t want to hear about her experiences. They want life to go on as if she hadn’t been in Vietnam. She learns they had given out the story that she was studying abroad in Florence. She’s not a hero to them. Rather, they are ashamed of her.
Then the nightmares begin. She has flashbacks when she hears a loud noise at a party. She can’t keep nursing jobs. Drink and drugs help her self-anesthetize. Frankie seeks help at the VA and is told women didn’t serve or see combat in Vietnam. She cannot find help. Something is broken inside, but she doesn’t understand what. She tries to pull herself together, with the help of Barb and Ethel, only to lose it all when a triggering event sends her spiraling out of control
We watch her self-destruct, despite the people, including her parents, who try to care for her. We wonder as we read if she will get the help she needs to pull out of the death spiral she is in.
Kristen Hannah captures a story too-seldom told. It took nearly twenty years to unveil The Vietnam Women’s Memorial in 1993. It depicts a combat nurse caring for a wounded soldier. I have a friend, a former colleague, who was a nurse in Vietnam. She has never talked about her experiences in the war or coming home. I wonder if they were anything like this book. Kristin Hannah helps me understand why she may have remained quiet. She also helps me understand the debt we owe to all the women who served. I grieve the painful things they saw and the horrible ways many were treated when they returned. I grieve hearing “no women served in Vietnam” when 265,000 did in military and civilian roles. Thanks to Kristin Hannah’s fine account that affirms that “they were heroes, too.”… (mais)