The End of Innocence

Name: The End of Innocence
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Allegra Jordan
ISBN: 9781101889527

Author: Allegra Jordan

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Allegra Jordan

Unabridged: 11 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Random House Audio

Published: 08/26/2014

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

On the eve of WWI, two students fall in love in Harvard's hallowed halls and must face a world at war from opposing sides

Helen Windship Brooks is struggling to find herself at the world-renowned Harvard-Radcliffe University when brooding German poet Wils bursts into her life. As they fall deeply in love on the brink of WWI, anti-German sentiments mount and Wils' future at Harvard-and in America-is in increasing danger. When Wils is called to fight for the Kaiser, Helen must decide if she is ready to fight her own battle for what she loves most.

From Harvard's hallowed halls to Belgium's war-ravaged battlefields, The End of Innocence is a powerful new vision of finding love and hope in a violent, broken world.

Includes an afterword read by the author.

About The Author

Allegra Jordan is an author and innovation consultant. She led marketing at USAToday.com, handled crisis communications for the Enron investigation, co-developed a Google Glass app, and has taught innovation in 16 countries on five continents. Her articles, cases and book reviews have appeared in USA Today, TEDx, and in publications by Duke, Harvard and UT-Austin. She curates a top-ranked reconciliation poetry website. A graduate with honors of Harvard Business School, she has been named a top executive under 40 in Austin, Texas and Birmingham, Alabama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa

4.5 stars. What a fantastic WWI historical fiction novel. Thanks so much to NetGally and Sourcebooks Landmark Publishing for the Advanced Review copy of this book. THE END OF INNOCENCE is a thought-provoking and emotional memorial to the Great War that affected so many lives. Read my full review at:......more

Goodreads review by Jan

How often can we say that read a great book today? One that made us think and feel, that made us a better person -- perhaps more tolerant, more forgiving -- for having read it? The End of Innocence is such a saga, a powerful story that opens on the eve of World War I at Harvard University in 1914. Th......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

As soon I as finished reading this book I went to Twitter and began tweeting @AllegraJordan1. Why? Because I finished this book on the train during my commute home and I was crying on the train! Seriously. I was sitting there with my bottom lip quivering and the tears in my eyes and cursing her for......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

Startling and powerful, this novel examines opposing forces during and after the first World War, with conflicts that are deeply personal as well as political. Harvard sets the stage for Helen, the Americn daughter of a conservative scholar and an activist mother, to meet Wils and Riley, German poet......more