Missile Paradise - Ron Tanner
| Автор: | Ron Tanner |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
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| Жанр произведения: | Историческая фантастика |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781632460127 |
Ron is extremely well-established in the writing community–he is a former president of AWP–and we will be bringing his extensive network to garner attention and reviews for the bookAdditional blurbs to come from Kevin Wilson, Bob Shacochis, Julia Glass and Alice McDermott Ron's awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, a Maryland Arts Council grant, and many others. Missile Paradise is set on the Marshall Islands, which are on the edge of Micronesia, smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and almost precisely on the equator. The U.S. tested 67 nuclear bombs in, on, and over the Marshall Islands from 1946 through 1958, and to this day, maintains a top secret missile testing program there.Ron lived in the Marshall Islands as a teenager–on that top-secret missile base, called Kwajalein. He returned there in the 1990s, and again in 2008, to establish a program to teach the Marshallese English.