Wild Wind

1930. American novelist and short-story writer. The Wild Wind begins: War is drums beating and flags flying and pipes playing, said Jacqueline, when her lover went overseas. Of course war is more than that-blood and brutality and horrors and hatred, and Jacqueline knew it. But I won't think of it that way, said Jacqueline to herself, or my heart will break. It was a very young heart, for Jacqueline was seventeen and she really had not right to a lover. But there he was, and what were you going to do about it?


Genre: Literary Fiction