Gone to Soldiers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Marge Piercy
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1939-1945
- Setting: The United States, especially Detroit, and battle zones of World War II
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, War fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Sexism, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Murder or homicide, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, World War II, Rape, Lesbianism or lesbians, Jews or Jewish life, Anti-Semitism, Abortion, Cruelty, Soldiers, Holocaust, Jewish, Concentration camps
- Locales: United States, Detroit, MI
Characters Discussed
Louise Kahan, also known as Annette Hollander Sinclair, a popular writer of women’s fiction. She is the former wife of Oscar Kahan and the mother of a fifteen-year-old daughter, Kay. When World War II breaks out, Louise works as a war correspondent and writes about anti-Semitism and the problems of women while resolving the nature of her continued involvement with her former husband.
Daniel Balaban, a child of immigrant Jewish parents living in the Bronx. He trains Japanese-language officers and works as a cryptologist deciphering codes in...
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