The Human Comedy

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The place is Ithaca, in California's San JoaquinValley. The time is World War II. The family isthe Macauley's -- a mother, sister, and threebrothers whose struggles and dreams reflect those ofAmerica's second-generation immigrants.. Inparticular, fourteen-year-old Homer, determined to becomeone of the fastest telegraph messengers in theWest, finds himself caught between reality andillusion as delivering his messages of wartime death,love, and money brings him face-to-face with humanemotion at its most naked and raw.
Gentle,poignant and richly autobiographical, thisdelightful novel shows us the boy becoming the man in aworld that even in the midst of war, appearssweeter, safer and more livable than out own.