Mary Lee Settle

6 x 9, 176 pages
paper, ISBN 1-57003-100-2, $12.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

After being rejected by the American armed forces for poor eyesight, Mary Lee Settle volunteered for service in the women's auxiliary arm of the Royal Air Force in 1942. She was a lone young American in a barracks full of English women. All the Brave Promises is her recollection and evocation of those war years.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Lee Settle was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and has lived in England, Turkey, and New York. Her novel Blood Tie won the National Book Award and her novel Choices received the Lillian Smith Award for fiction. Settle's other works include the novels Charley Bland, Celebration, The Clam Shell, The Love Eaters, The Kiss of Kinand a memoir, All the Brave Promises. Settle now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Addie
Charley Bland
Prisons
Know Nothing
The Scapegoat
The Killing Ground
Blood Tie
Celebration
The Clam Shell
The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin