Homer Macauley, 14, is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen in a little village in California's San Joaquin Valley. His older brother has enlisted in the military, leaving Homer to care for his widowed mother, his older sister, and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. As spring gives way to summer in1942, Homer Macauley brings words of love, hope, grief, and death to the fine people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will wrestle with a message that will eternally transform him - from a child to a man. ITHACA is the iconic wartime tale of the Home Front, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human Comedy. It is a coming-of-age novel about the youthful exuberance, the pleasure of life, the sting of death, and the modesty and pure goodness that everyone of us possesses.
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Homer Macauley, 14, is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen in a little village in California's San Joaquin Valley. His older brother has enlisted in the military, leaving Homer to care for his widowed mother, his older sister, and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. As spring gives way to summer in1942, Homer Macauley brings words of love, hope, grief, and death to the fine people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will wrestle with a message that will eternally transform him - from a child to a man. ITHACA is the iconic wartime tale of the Home Front, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human Comedy. It is a coming-of-age novel about the youthful exuberance, the pleasure of life, the sting of death, and the modesty and pure goodness that everyone of us possesses.
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