Lark and Termite
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Jayne Anne Phillips.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780375401954
Subjects: Nineteen fifties -- Fiction; Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Fiction; West Virginia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set during the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, this is the story of two children--Lark, on the verge of adulthood, and her brother, Termite, a child unable to walk and talk but filled with radiance--who grow up with their mother and aunt while their soldier-father fights for his life during the chaotic early months of the Korean War.