Julia and the Bazooka (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Helen Woods
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1910-1940
- Setting: London, England
- Principal Characters: Julia, Her bridegroom, The tennis professional, A doctor
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: World War II, Substance abuse, Death or dying, Drug addiction or addicts, Heroin, Isolation
- Locales: London, England
The Story
“Julia and the Bazooka” is the story of a young girl who grows up to become a heroin addict, but who dies, not because of her addiction, but as a victim of World War II. The story is narrated in a nonsequential manner and overlaps and doubles back on itself, but even in its convoluted form, it is a simple and powerful narrative.
The story begins directly enough—“Julia is a little girl with long straight hair and big eyes”—but the chronological order is soon abandoned and past and present mix together without temporal value, and readers must piece...
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