Dear Stranger is a novel written by Catherine Kidwell. Released in 1982, it tells of a love from World War II being reignited.
Characters[]
- Bonnie
- John Blake
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Publisher's Summary[]
Bonnie and John met one snowy night in 1943. She was twenty-one, a secretary in a defense plant, but striving to be a novelist. He was twenty-three, a Harvard man. On his chest gleamed wings that would take him into action in a week. They had jut one week to dance and to dream, to condense lifetimes into moments, to marry and share one part of one night together before his squadron flew across the Atlantic.
Then there were only letters - and a trip to Boston so that Bonne could meet John's wealthy parents (and the girl they had wanted him to marry). It was a confrontation that tore away all Bonnie's certainty, made John seem a stranger and their time together only a fragile interlude. After two years Bonnie wrote her last letter, ending the marriage.
Now, thirty years later, Bonne is in New York. Dissatisfied with the constraints of her life as a corporate wife, she has defied her husband to come to the city alone, to fight for a cause she believes in, to attend the Earth Savers Convention. As she turns the pages of the program, she sees a blurry picture, a name - John Blake will be the banquest speaker. John Blake. Will he want to meet her again? Will he even recognize this grandmother - trim and pretty as she is - the lovely girl with snow in her hair and love in her eyes? Bonnie must find out. She must learn for herself why he never answered that last letter, why he left an annulment serve as his response.
Theirs is a meeting that will change the course of Bonnie's life, opening for her the possibility of regaining not only a lost love but also a self lost in the years of living as an important man's wife and a mother to three daughters.
Dear Stranger is a love story, yes, but it is far more than that. It is the story of three decades of living as a woman in America. It is a message of hope to those who have felt their chance to realize themselves buried in the vaunted domestic tranquility of the fifties, forgotten as the young rebelled in the sixtes. It is a challenge - an unpredictable, joyous invitation to escape from the stereotype into individuality.
Full Summary[]
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