{"product_id":"vassar-outlander-9780595420681","title":"Vassar Outlander","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ralph LoCascio\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1946, ninety-four World War II veterans find themselves in the midst of a sea of cloistered damsels at Vassar College. Four years later, eleven of those veterans graduate. One of them is battle-hardened Frankie Fanelli who was raised in the slums of Newburgh, New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Frankie enters Vassar he is a physically confident, sexually active, barroom brawler, unhappy that only unskilled jobs are open to him. At first he finds himself intellectually and socially intimidated by the Vassar ambiance. Gradually, he copes with the new demands, not the least of which is a romance with beautiful, self-assured, upper middle-class Alexis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterweaving the veterans' experiences with historical documents, articles from student newspapers, and newspaper headlines, \u003ci\u003eVassar Outlander\u003c\/i\u003e becomes more than another coming-of-age tale. Characters confront major issues that reverberate today, more than a half-century later, e.g., Israeli-Arab conflict, Korean tension, anti-Semitism, race bias, homosexuality, pre-marital sex, religion, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45165333577879,"sku":"9780595420681","price":1310.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780595420681.webp?v=1767307057","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/vassar-outlander-9780595420681","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}