Over There (The American Chronicles, Book 2) - Softcover

Vaughan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553296612 ISBN 13: 9780553296617

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1992

Synopsis

The life and loves of Lady Lucinda Chetwynd-Dunleigh, a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, are set against the backdrop of a history that spans from the 1912 ocean disaster, through revolution in Russia, to the beginning of World War I. Original.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

This second volume in Vaughan's ( Dawn of the Century ) American Chronicles series follows the surviving characters of the first book from the sinking of the Titanic , which kills off another of the four golden college boys around whom the books revolve, into WW I and the onset of Prohibition. Along the way, Vaughan manages to include such historical personages as Cpl. Adolf Hitler, Maj. Dwight Eisenhower, Pres. Woodrow Wilson and Chicago racketeer Johnny Torrio. These cameos, designed to give the book an air of historical authority, actually do nothing but underline the fact that all of Vaughan's characters, real or imaginary, talk exactly alike. His plotting has become even more predictable and mechanical than in the previous volume, and his sense of historical irony can be judged from a black character's remark to Eisenhower: "Sure. We'll have a Negro chief of staff in the Army someday. And I suppose you also think someday we'll fly to the moon." Aside from one mildly amusing variation on contemporary catastrophe jokes (a bibulous passenger on the Titanic wisecracks about stopping to get more ice for cocktails), this series seems to be dead in the water.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553296612
• ISBN 13: 9780553296617
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432