Our Yank: Coming of Age in Oxford During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

ISBN-13: 9789197918817 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 222 str.

Donovan O'Malley

Opis

A Comic Novel by Donovan O'Malley: Against the backdrop of a possible nuclear war over Russian missiles in Cuba, seventeen-year old American, Andy, has left sunny California to study at The 'Rossetti' School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. "It shall be the policy of this Nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union." (John F. Kennedy, President of the United States October, 1962) "Crikey " said Sheila. You were a virgin Damn it I'm sick to death of sniveling little Oxford virgins " (Sheila, student at the 'Rossetti' School of Drawing and Fine Art. October, 1962)