Monday, Monday
On an oppressively hot Monday in August 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on the pedestrians below. Before his rampage was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It wa...
| Main Author: | Crook, Elizabeth, 1959- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
On an oppressively hot Monday in August 1966, a student and former marine named Charles Whitman hauled a footlocker of guns to the top of the University of Texas tower and began firing on the pedestrians below. Before his rampage was over, sixteen people had been killed and thirty-two wounded. It was the first mass shooting of civilians on a campus in American history. Monday, Monday, follows three students caught up in the massacre: Shelly, who leaves her math class and walks directly into the path of the bullets, and two cousins, Wyatt and Jack, who herocially rush from their classrooms to help the victims. On this searing day, a relationship begins that will eventually entage these three young people in a forbidden love affair, an illicit pregnancy, and a vow of secrecy that will span forty years. Reunited decades after the tragedy, they will be forced to confront the event that changed their lives and that has silently and persistently rules the lives of their children." |
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| Physical Description: |
340 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780374228828 (hardcover) 0374228825 (hardcover) 9780374711375 (ebook) 0374711372 (ebook) |
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