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# Eddie & the Showmen

Eddie & the Showmen were an American surf rock band of the 1960s. Formed in Southern California by Eddie Bertrand, formerly of The Bel-Airs, they released several singles on Liberty Records. Their highest-charting single in Los Angeles was "Mr. Rebel", which reached number four on the Wallichs Music City Hit List on February 10, 1964.
The band originally formed because Bertrand wanted to move on from the Bel-Airs. While the Bel-Airs focused more on guitar interplay, and a moderate sound, Eddie & the Showmen played more in the style of Dick Dale with a prominent lead guitar and heavy sound. The band's original drummer was former Mouseketeer Dick Dodd, who later joined The Standells. One of the guitar players, Larry Carlton, later became a famous jazz guitarist, and another was Rob Edwards of Colours who was the guitarist on the title track for the surf movie, Pacific Vibrations.
One of Eddie & the Showmen's biggest hits, "Squad Car", was written by Paul Johnson of the Bel-Airs. Eddie and the Showmen are included in the Hard Rock Cafe: Surf 1998 compilation of surf bands and surf music on track 11. Mr. Rebel. They are also included in The Birth of Surf compilation track 20 Squad Car and are on 10 tracks of Toes on the Nose: 32 Surf Age Instrumentals compilation.
Eddie Bertrand died of cancer in November 2012.

## Singles

* "Toes on the Nose" b/w "Border Town" (Liberty 55566, 1963)
* "Squad Car" b/w "Scratch" (Liberty 55608, 1963)
* "Mr. Rebel" b/w "Movin'" (Liberty 55659, 1963)
* "Lanky Bones" b/w "Far Away Places" (Liberty 55695, 1964)
* "We Are the Young" b/w "Young and Lonely" (Liberty 55720, 1964)

## Albums

* Squad Car (complete singles collection plus 7 bonus tracks) (AVI Records CD-5021/EMI-Capitol Special Markets 72438-18886-29, 1996)

## Personnel

* Eddie Bertrand - Composer, Executive Producer, Guitar Producer
* Rob Edwards - Guitar (Rhythm)
* Brett Brady - Guitar (Rhythm)
* Larry Carlton - Guitar (Rhythm)
* John Anderson - Guitar (Rhythm)
* Freddy Buxton - Bass
* Doug Henson - Bass
* Dick Dodd - Drums
* Michael Mills - Drums
* Bobby Knight - Saxophone
* Sterling Storm - Saxophone
* Phillip Pruden - Saxophone
* Nokie Edwards - Composer
* R. Dodd - Composer
* Lee Hazlewood - Composer
* Paul Johnson - Composer
* Andreas Kramer - Composer
* Joan Whitney - Composer
* Tom Mouton - Mastering, Mixing
* Greg Vaughn - Mastering, Mixing
* Pete Ciccone - Art Direction, Design
* Patti Drosins - Executive Producer
* Bones Howe - Producer
* Drew Jessel - Assistant Producer
* Lanky Linstrot - Producer
* Dave Pell - Producer
* Stephanie Press - Assistant Producer
* Domenic Priore - Compilation Producer, Liner Notes
* Rob Santos - Compilation Producer
* Jim York - Producer
# Marquinhos Cambalhota

Weimar Marcos Rodrigues (born 9 August 1984), known as Marquinhos Cambalhota, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Santa Quitéria-PR as a striker.
He played at Lajeadense in the Campeonato Gaúcho.
He signed a 2-year contract with Cianorte in July 2007. He signed a new five-year contract in March 2008, but he was on loan to Grêmio Barueri at Série B since April 2008.
In April 2009 he was loaned to Guarani of Série B.
In 2013, he signed for Coquimbo Unido.
# Acidofilia

Acidofilia is the tenth studio album by Polish thrash metal band Acid Drinkers. It was released on 13 May 2002. The album was mastered at High-End Studio by Grzegorz Piwkowski. It was rereleased in 2008 by Metal Mind with a bonus video for the song "Acidofilia". It is the final album to feature Przemek "Perła" Wejmann.
The album title was created by Dariusz "Maleo" Malejonek (Maleo Reggae Rockers, Izrael, Houk, 2Tm2,3, and Arka Noego). The original album cover featured frontman Titus pregnant, but was quickly changed before the release of the album.

## Track listing

All music composed by Acid Drinkers. All lyrics written by Titus, except "Pig to Rent" and "Hydrogen" written by Perła.

## Personnel
### Acid Drinkers

* Tomek "Titus" Pukacki – vocals, bass
* Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz – lead guitar
* Maciek "Ślimak" Starosta – drums, production, mixing, cover concept
* Przemek "Perła" Wejmann – rhythm guitar, production, mixing, cover concept, graphic design

### Production

* Jacek Chraplak – production, mixing
* Grzegorz Piwkowski – mastering
* Krzysztof Tokarski – cover concept, graphic design, artwork
* Tomasz Mielcarz – photography
# Crnobori

Crnobori (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Црнобори) is a small village in the municipality of Pljevlja, Montenegro.

## Demographics

According to the 2003 census, the village had a population of 87 people.
According to the 2011 census, its population was 33.
Ethnicity in 2011 :
| Ethnicity | Number | Percentage |
| Serbs | 20 | 60.6% |
| Montenegrins | 12 | 36.4% |
| other/undeclared | 1 | 3.0% |
| Total | 33 | 100% |
# Moammereh, Minu

Moammereh (Persian: معمره, also Romanized as Mo‘ammereh; also known as Mo‘ammarā Sangūr, Mo‘ammarā Sangūr, Moammare, Mo‘ammareh Şangūr, Mo‘ammareh Şongūr, Mo‘ammareh-ye Şangūr, and Nowābād) is a village in Jazireh-ye Minu Rural District, Minu District, Khorramshahr County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 808, in 164 families.
# Wanderson (footballer, born 1990)

Wanderson Miranda Francisco (born 8 February 1990 Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina), known simply as Wanderson, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for AF Braga Honour Division club CCD Santa Eulália.
# Ymer Island

Ymer Island (Danish: Ymer Ø) is an island in northeastern Greenland. The island is a part of Northeast Greenland National Park.
Ymer Island is named after the Swedish geographical journal Ymer, which published many accounts of Swedish expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland. The journal had been named after the giant Ymir, the forefather of the Jotuns in Norse mythology.

## Geography

The island lies on the southern side of the entrance of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, with the Antarctic Sound separating it from the Suess Land Peninsula. Ymer Island's northern half forms a peninsula named Gunnar Anderson Land having its narrow isthmus in the west. The fjord between the two halves of the island is named Dusen Fjord.
Ymer Island has an area of 2,437 km$^2$. It is mountainous; Angelin Bjerg, its highest peak, reaches a height of 1900 m. Celsius Bjerg is located at the southeastern end of the island.
The conspicuous Devil's Castle (Teufelsschloss) is located on the other side of Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord, off the southern shore of Cape Petersens, the NW extremity of Ymer Island.
| Mountaintops in Ymer Island | Landsat satellite image |
# Singasholpur Union

Singasholpur Union (Bengali: সিঙ্গাশোলপুর ইউনিয়ন) is a Union parishad of Narail Sadar Upazila, Narail District in Khulna Division of Bangladesh. It has an area of 39.63 km2 (15.30 sq mi) and a population of 16,034.
# The Pickwick Papers (TV series)

The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaptation of the 1837 novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. The series was first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby, Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide, with narration by Ray Brooks.

## Central characters

* Nigel Stock as Samuel Pickwick—the protagonist and founder of the Pickwick Club
* Jeremy Nicholas as Mr. Nathaniel Winkle— travelling companion and friend of Pickwick's; a reluctant sportsman
* Alan Parnaby as Mr. Augustus Snodgrass—another companion and friend; an amiable poet
* Clive Swift as Mr. Tracy Tupman—another friend; a very flirtatious man
* Phil Daniels as Sam Weller—Mr. Pickwick's valet
* Howard Lang as Tony Weller—Sam's father; does not really know whether his name is written as Veller or Weller
* Patrick Malahide as Mr. Alfred Jingle—a strolling player and a charlatan
* Colin Douglas as Mr. Wardle—friend of Pickwick's, a widower with two daughters
* Milton Johns as Mr. Perker—Pickwick's lawyer
* Pip Donaghy as Job Trotter—Jingle's servant
* Jo Kendall as Mrs. Bardell—Pickwick's landlady

## Other characters

* Dione Inman—Isabella Wardle
* Valerie Whittington—Emily Wardle
* Ned Williams—Master Bardell
* David Nunn—Joe (Fat Boy)
* Patience Collier—Old Mrs. Wardle
* Freda Dowie—Rachel Wardle
* Hugh Ross—Jackson
* Tamsin Heatley—Mary
* Sarah Finch—Arabella Allen
* Shirley Cain—Miss Witherfield
* Dallas Cavell—Roker
* Gerald James—Dr. Slammer
* John Patrick—Lt. Tappleton
* Russell Denton—Waiter—Bull Inn
* Anthony Roye—Dodson
* Kenneth Waller—Fogg
* Alan Mason—Dying prisoner
* Paddy Ward—Wardle Manservant
* John Woodnutt—Sergeant Snubbin
* Michael Ripper—Phunkey
* Nicholas Jeune—Trundle
* June Ellis—Cook
* Richard Henry—Lowten
* David Beckett—Benjamin Allen
* Deddie Davies—Mrs. Cluppins
* Stephen Finlay—Bob Sawyer
* George Little—Peter Magnus
* James Cossins—Nupkins
# Kalri (Mianwali District)

Kalri is a village in Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan near Namal Lake in the Awankari region in the foothills of the Salt Range.
# Megalodacne grandipennis

Megalodacne grandipennis is a species of pleasing fungus beetle, in the family Erotylidae. It is endemic to Tanzania and Namibia. As is typical of species in the genus Megalodacne, M. grandipennis feeds on bracket fungi.
The species' name comes from Latin and Ancient Greek, "grandipennis" meaning "large wing" in Latin.

## Taxonomy and systematics

Megalodacne grandipennis was discovered by Léon Fairmaire in 1891, and contains the following subspecies:
* Megalodacne grandipennis cunctans
* Megalodacne grandipennis inuncata
* Megalodacne grandipennis rhodesiaca
# International Day against Nuclear Tests

The International Day against Nuclear Tests is observed on August 29. It was established on December 2, 2009, at the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly by the resolution 64/35, which was adopted unanimously.
The resolution in particular calls for increasing awareness "about the effects of nuclear weapon test explosions or any other nuclear explosions and the need for their cessation as one of the means of achieving the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world". The resolution was initiated by Kazakhstan together with several sponsors and cosponsors to commemorate the closure of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site on August 29, 1991.
Following the establishment of the International Day against Nuclear Tests, in May 2010 all state parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons committed themselves to "achieve the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons".

## Conferences

On September 15, 2014, the Embassy of Kazakhstan in the United States in co-sponsorship with Arms Control Association, Green Cross International, the Embassy of Canada, and the ATOM Project held a conference "Nuclear Weapons Testing: History, Progress, Challenges" commemorating United Nations International Day Against Nuclear Tests. The conference took place at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. This conference was focused on the issue of nuclear weapons testing and the road forward for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. The keynote presenters included the U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest J. Moniz, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Rose E. Gottemoeller, the U.S. Under Secretary of Energy and NNSA Administrator Frank J. Klotz, and the Executive Secretary of CTBTO Lassina Zerbo. The participants of the conference underlined their commitment to the nuclear weapons non-proliferation.

## In popular culture

* NationStates, a popular multiplayer government simulation browser game, celebrates the International Day against Nuclear Tests in a surprising way. On August 29 of every year, nations are granted the ability to use nuclear weapons against each other, leading to a violent multifaceted nuclear war. This tradition started after the mini-games initial appearance on the site for April Fools' Day 2017, and subsequent user requests to make this a regular event.
# Sinan Selen

Sinan Selen (born 1972, Istanbul) is a German constitutional lawyer, executive officer and the Vice-President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). Selen is the first high-ranking officer with a migrant background in the German intelligence services.

## Early life and education

Selen was born in Istanbul to secular parents. At the age of four, he and his parents moved to Cologne, where his parents were journalists at the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. In high school he wrote for the students' journal. He was also involved as a paramedic with the St. John ambulance service. He studied European law at the University of Cologne.

## Career

In 2000 Selen began his career at the Federal Criminal Police Office where he was assigned to the security detail of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Minister of the Interior Otto Schily. After the terrorist attacks on the twin towers in New York on 11 September 2001 he searched for traces of evidence that the attackers left in Germany. In July 2006 he organized the hunt for two Lebanese terrorists who placed two bombs on regional trains at the Cologne main station. The attack failed as the bombs did not explode. After an extensive review of videos from surveillance cameras, one of the perpetrators was captured in the train station in Kiel. Afterwards, his accomplice in Lebanon surrendered as well.
Selen entered the Ministry of the Interior in 2006, and initially his work was focused on the ban of the Salafist organization Millatu Ibrahim. He served as the head of the international counter-terrorism department until 2009. Between 2009 and 2012 he was assigned to the Headquarters of the Federal Police in the counter-piracy and human trafficking department. From 2012 onwards he worked in the Ministry of the Interior where in early 2016 he was given the task to coordinate between Turkey and Germany on terror-related issues. As a result, he and the diplomat Emily Haber often travelled to Ankara, Turkey. In their conversations with the Turkish authorities, he refused to extradite members of the Gülen movement, and conversed through a translator in the German language most of the time.
From 2016 Selen was in charge of security for the travel agency TUI. In January 2019 he assumed the role of Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), succeeding Thomas Haldenwang who was appointed president of the BfV.

## Reception

Selen's appointment to the vice-presidency of the BfV caused concerns across the political spectrum. The left was worried that he would cause difficulties for Kurdish sympathizers of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and left-wing Turkish political activists, while the right accused him of being a Muslim, which he actually is not. The Greens welcomed his appointment.
# Elena Tkach

Yelena Anatolyevna Tkach (also Elena Tkach, Russian: Елена Анатольевна Ткач; born 19 May 1970 in Kopeysk, Russian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian sport shooter. Representing the former Soviet Union, Tkach won a silver medal in the women's double trap at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Australia, with a total score of 121 clay pigeons. She also defeated Lithuania's Daina Gudzinevičiūtė by one point for the gold medal in the women's trap at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, accumulating a score of 93 targets. Tkach is also a member of the shooting team for Dynamo Voronezh, and is coached and trained by her teammate and two-time Olympian Maxim Kosarev.
Tkach made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed only in two shooting events. She scored a total of 81 clay pigeons 65 in the preliminary rounds and 16 in the final) in the women's trap by five points behind German shooter and Olympic silver medalist Susanne Kiermayer, finishing only in sixth place. The following day, Tkach placed sixteenth in the qualifying rounds of the women's double trap by three points behind Canada's Susan Nattrass, accumulating a score of 90 targets.
Twelve years after competing in her last Olympics, Tkach qualified for her second Russian team, as a 42-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing second in the women's trap from the 2011 European Shooting Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. Tkach had finished on exactly the same score of 70 targets as Finland's Satu Mäkelä-Nummela (defending Olympic champion) and Spain's Fátima Gálvez in the qualifying rounds of the women's trap, but narrowly lost the three-person shoot-off by half the score behind winner Gálvez, for a bonus of six points.
# Masoud Mobaraki

Masoud Mobaraki (Persian: مسعود مبارکی; born 31 May 1953) is an Iranian former cyclist. He competed in the 1000m time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
# The Rebel Chief

The Rebel Chief is a 1849 Australian stage play by Francis Belfield. It was produced at a time when Australian plays were extremely rare.
The play was also revived a number of times.
Bells Life said "it has all the requisites of a good drama – the plot is excellent and clearly developed; tho situations are of thrilling interest; the characters naturally drawn, and tbo language is powerful without hyperbole or exaggeration."
Leslie Rees later called it "a longer, multicoloured melodrama set in the reign of Charles the Second, with a comic Irishman and his biddy thrown in for good measure. The dialogue was highfalutin, to say the least. Mr Belfield gallantly attempted to breathe life into it by filling the title-role himself."
The play was published in 1850.
# Qerkh Bolagh

Qerkh Bolagh or Qarakh Bolagh or Qarkh Bolagh (Persian: قرخ بلاغ), also rendered as Gharakh Bolagh, may refer to various places in Iran:
* Qarakh Bolagh, Kowsar, Ardabil Province
* Qerkh Bolagh, Meshgin Shahr, Ardabil Province
* Qarkh Bolagh, Charuymaq, East Azerbaijan Province
* Qerkh Bolagh, Sarab, East Azerbaijan Province
* Qerkh Bolagh, Hamadan
* Qerkh Bolagh, Qazvin
* Qerkh Bolagh, West Azerbaijan
# Skye Chan

Skye Chan (simplified Chinese: 陈倩扬; traditional Chinese: 陳倩揚; Pinyin: Chén Qiànyáng; Yale: Chan4 Sin6 Yeung4) (born October 13, 1983) is a Hongkonger actress and beauty pageant titleholder who placed 1st runner-up at Miss Hong Kong 2008. She represented Hong Kong in Miss World 2008 where she did not even win a place, but in Miss Chinese International 2009, she was crowned 1st runner-up. Following her win, she became an actress for TVB and a language translator, as she can speak three languages: English, Japanese, Chinese dialects Mandarin and Cantonese.
Before her current career, Chan was a flight attendant with Cathay Pacific and studied at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

## Filmography

| Year | Name of Film | Role | Notes |
| 2010 | Some Day | Bernice | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Relic of an Emissary | Tsui Yee-wah | |
| 2011 | Yes, Sir. Sorry, Sir! | Macy | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Men with No Shadows | Iris | |
| 2011 | The Queen of All | | |
| 2012 | Friendly Fire | Celine | |
| 2013 | Triumph in the Skies II | Joanne | |
| 2014 | Shades of Life | Lau Siu Wan | 1 episode |
| 2014 | Line Walker | Ada Tse | |
| 2015 | Four Girls, Three Bars | | |
| 2015 | Raising the Bar | Sabrina Fong Tin-na | |
| 2016 | Between Love & Desire | Wong Hiu-ting | |
# Matheus Pinto

Matheus dos Santos Pinto (born 5 October 1992) is a Brazilian footballer.

## Career statistics
### Club

    As of 17 July 2019.
| Club | Season | League | League | League | State League | State League | Cup | Cup | Continental | Continental | Other | Other | Total | Total |
| Club | Season | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| America-RJ | 2011 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 11 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| America-RJ | 2012 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| America-RJ | 2013 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| America-RJ | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 31 | 1 |
| São Cristóvão | 2014 | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| São Cristóvão | 2015 | – | – | – | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| São Cristóvão | 2016 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| São Cristóvão | Total | Total | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| Flamengo-PI (loan) | 2016 | – | – | – | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Resende | 2016 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Alecrim | 2017 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| São Cristóvão | 2017 | – | – | – | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Platense | 2017–18 | Liga Salva Vida | 4 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Real Sociedad | 2017–18 | Liga Salva Vida | 8 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| Goytacaz | 2019 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Career total | Career total | Career total | 12 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 98 | 1 |

#### Notes

* 1 2 3 4 Appearances in the Copa Rio
* 1 2 3 4 5 Appearances in the Campeonato Carioca Série B1
* ↑ Appearances in the Campeonato Carioca Série B2
* ↑ Appearances in the Campeonato Piauiense
* ↑ Appearances in the Copa do Nordeste
* ↑ Appearances in the Campeonato Potiguar
* ↑ Appearances in the CONCACAF League
# List of programs broadcast by This TV

The following is an article listing television series that are and were broadcast or have previously aired on This TV, a digital broadcast network owned by Allen Media Group.
This TV's programming consisted of syndicated television series that Allen Media Group has ownership rights, E/I compliant children's programming, and some religious programs on Sunday mornings. This TV devoted a large portion of its schedule to movies licensed from MGM Studios until January 1, 2024.

## Former programming
### Drama programming

* The Avengers
* The Saint
* In the Heat of the Night
* Sea Hunt
* The Rat Patrol

### Reality programming

* Deadline to Disaster (2024)
* ES.TV
* Highway Thru Hell (2024)
* Justice for All with Judge Cristina Perez
* Recipe.TV
* SOS: How to Survive (2024)
* Storm of Suspicion (2024)
* Top 10 (2024)
* The Verdict with Judge Hatchett
* Weather Gone Viral (2024)
* Weird Earth (2024)
* Who Wants to Date a Comedian?
* The World's Funniest Weather (2024)

### Western programming

* Bat Masterson
* Mackenzie's Raiders

### Children’s programming

* On the Spot $^{E/I}$ (2013–2016)
* Zoo Clues $^{E/I}$ (2013–2016)
* Awesome Adventures $^{E/I}$
* Whaddyado $^{E/I}$
* Wild About Animals $^{E/I}$
* Wild World at the San Diego Zoo $^{E/I}$
* The Young Icons $^{E/I}$
* Career Day $^{E/I}$
* Get Wild at the San Diego Zoo $^{E/I}$ (2016–2024)
* Science Nation $^{E/I}$

### Religious programming

* In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley
* The Key of David
* Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
# Umedpur Union

Umedpur Union (Bengali: উমেদপুর ইউনিয়ন) is a union parishad of Shailkupa Upazila, in Jhenaidah District, Khulna Division of Bangladesh. The union has an area of 32.38 square kilometres (12.50 sq mi) and as of 2001 had a population of 26,243. There are 23 villages and 8 Mouzas in the union.
# A Special Providence

A Special Providence is a novel by the American writer Richard Yates. First published in 1969, Yates' third book concerns the dual exploits of an awkward infantry soldier in World War II and his mother, a deluded sculptor living in New York City.

## Plot summary

Robert Prentice is drafted after graduating high school and enters World War II during its final days. His hopes of glory are dashed by the fact that the fighting is almost all over. He proves to be an incompetent soldier and soon spends time in an infirmary with pneumonia. When he returns to his unit he continues to struggle but finally achieves a kind of acceptance.
This narrative is interspersed with scenes from his childhood viewed from the perspective of his mother, Alice Prentice. She spends Robert's childhood moving from place to place mainly within New York accruing increasingly larger debts as her sculpting earns less and less money. She increasingly slips into despair as the novel ends and Robert decides not to return home.

## Reception

Zadie Smith described the novel as being "like Breakfast At Tiffany's spliced with All Quiet On The Western Front. Impossible to paraphrase, wonderful to read."