The Last Thing You Surrender
A Novel of World War II
Fiction & Literature, Military, Historical, Literary
| Author: | Leonard Pitts, Jr. | ISBN: | 9781572848245 |
| Publisher: | Agate Publishing | Publication: | February 5, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Agate Bolden | Language: | English |
| Author: | Leonard Pitts, Jr. |
| ISBN: | 9781572848245 |
| Publisher: | Agate Publishing |
| Publication: | February 5, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Agate Bolden |
| Language: | English |
- HISTORICAL FICTION PAGE-TURNER: Combines the accessible prose and old-fashioned storytelling of Pitts’s previous novels with a deeply researched historical setting
- CELEBRATED AUTHOR: Author is a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist with a three-times-weekly newspaper column syndicated nationally in 200+ newspapers in dozens of major US markets
- PROVEN TRACK RECORD: Pitts’s 2012 novel, Freeman, was a national bestseller, with rave reviews from All Things Considered, the Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, as well as endorsements by Jennifer Weiner, Gabrielle Union, and Gwen Ifill
- MASSIVE PLATFORM: Author has an engaged, passionate, and steadily growing following of 30k on Twitter
- BOOK CLUB APPEAL: Accompanying reading group guide includes discussion questions and a Q&A with the author
- HISTORICAL SETTING: Story unfolds during World War II in three theaters of the war—the Pacific, Europe, and America’s Deep South—between 1941 and 1945
- POPULAR CATEGORY: Will appeal to the kinds of readers who embraced recent WWII-era bestsellers like Beneath a Scarlet Sky (108,000 copies sold) and Mudbound (184,000 copies sold).
- HISTORICAL FICTION PAGE-TURNER: Combines the accessible prose and old-fashioned storytelling of Pitts’s previous novels with a deeply researched historical setting
- CELEBRATED AUTHOR: Author is a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist with a three-times-weekly newspaper column syndicated nationally in 200+ newspapers in dozens of major US markets
- PROVEN TRACK RECORD: Pitts’s 2012 novel, Freeman, was a national bestseller, with rave reviews from All Things Considered, the Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, as well as endorsements by Jennifer Weiner, Gabrielle Union, and Gwen Ifill
- MASSIVE PLATFORM: Author has an engaged, passionate, and steadily growing following of 30k on Twitter
- BOOK CLUB APPEAL: Accompanying reading group guide includes discussion questions and a Q&A with the author
- HISTORICAL SETTING: Story unfolds during World War II in three theaters of the war—the Pacific, Europe, and America’s Deep South—between 1941 and 1945
- POPULAR CATEGORY: Will appeal to the kinds of readers who embraced recent WWII-era bestsellers like Beneath a Scarlet Sky (108,000 copies sold) and Mudbound (184,000 copies sold).
