Long Time Passing: A Novel

by Adrienne Jones

Book Overview

In the turbulence of the late 1960s, while his father is serving as a Marine officer in Vietnam, seventeen-year-old Jonas falls in love with a free-spirited flower child active in the peace movement... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006023055X
• ISBN13: 9780060230555
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

An interesting read...

It is the year of 1969 and the Vietnam War is taking place. A young man named Jonas Duncan is sent to live in a small town called Passot, on the northern Californian coast. Jonas' dad had always loved the military. Dragging Jonas and his mother Letty from camp to camp. His dad, Hugh, wants Jonas to join the Navy and to follow in his father's footsteps. But one day Letty dies in a car crash and Hugh is sent to fight in Vietnam. Jonas is stuck with his Aunt Hester McAffee until he turns eighteen. Then he'll get out of this small town. Going agaisnt his Aunt's rules he befriends Gideon Brophy and falls in love with his rumored daughter, Auleen Delange. Auleen is reluctant at first, leaving Jonas once in a grassy field, way out in the forest. She tells Jonas that "McAffe's and Delanges don't mix." But Jonas intervines and tells Auleen that even if his mother was an McAffe, it doesn't make him one. He is and will always be a Duncan. Jonas leaves Hester before he turns eighteen and goes to the Berkely campus with Auleen to help protest about the Vietnam War. Though he ends up going back to Passot when he finds out that his father is missing in action. He makes a decision that will change his life forever.. In my opinion this book was good. This was my first time ever reading a novel in the setting of the Vietnam War. The book had many twists and turns in it. It was a plot more different than all of the books I have read. There were so many creative ideas. I think it is great that Adrienne Jones choose to write about this cetain era. Most kids like me, probably haven't read a book in this setting. A lot of author's don't really turn the Vietnam War into an adolescent's novel, having fiction and non-fiction at the same time. I actually learned something about the war! WOW!(amazing for me) If you are really desperate for anything to read, buy it. But if you're more laid-back like me. I'd say you should go to your local public library and pick up a copy of this book.