Nothing but a smile
Subtitle: a novel
By: Steve Amick.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780307377364
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction; Homecoming -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction; Michigan -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: It's 1944 and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Stars and Stripes, has returned to Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him an unwanted discharge from the service. Renting a room in the back of the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton--the wife of one of Wink's buddies still stationed in the Philippines--Wink is surprised to learn how Sal is making ends meet: producing pinup photos for the soldiers' favorite girlie magazines. In fact, she's using herself as a model. When Wink becomes a partner in her covert enterprise, it's the beginning of an unspoken romance that manages to be both sexy and innocent--a romance that grows and deepens as the two discover in themselves and each other a kind of ingenious practicality that readies them, together, for a rapidly changing postwar world.