Perfect wartime love story

  • Book: The Wind is not a River
  • Location: Alaska, The Aleutian Islands
  • Author: Brian Payton

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Perfect storm of a wartime love story… The historical background of The Wind Is Not a River is well done; Payton has trained a spotlight on an obscure and not very creditable episode of US history, revealing the shabby treatment of the native Aleuts. But this is mainly a good old fashioned tear-jerker, written with beautiful clarity and feeling. It cries out to be a black and white 1940’s movie, with a swirling score and Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine in the leading role. (The Times)

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