num_pages: 276
description: Until They Bring The Streetcars Back serves up a nostalgic journey through the streets of post-war 1949 Saint Paul-- those wistful days of ten-cent sodas, big band music, and burning leaves. Stanley West weaves rollicking humor, riveting suspense, and a bittersweet love story into the fabric of those optimistic times. Through a seemingly harmless prank and a chance conversation, Cal Gant, previously secure in the friendly neighborhoods of his idyllic life, stumbles onto the naked face of cruelty, incest, and murder. When he attempts to rescue a strange and haunting girl, he finds himself in a heart-stopping struggle with her ruthless father, leading Cal to the brink of self-doubt, terror, and death itself. Can he find within himself the backbone to stand against the horror and the daring to concoct some scheme to set Gretchen free?
language: English
title: Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
titlecomplete: Until They Bring the Streetcars Back
genres: Read For School, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical, School, Novels, Young Adult, High School, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 2349
series: Cal Gant
publisher: Lexington Marshall Publishing, LLC