![]() ![]() We gain much of our insight into their world through Jeannie, a “seasoned” Master Sergeant’s wife who dominates the social whirl of army wives while her womanizing, alcoholic husband runs the crew at the reactor. Second is the catty, secretive circle of army wives, made only more suspicious of one another by their sparseness in a town with a relatively small military population. ![]() First is the remote, walled-off world of the reactor and the province of men-the worst of them drunk, distracted, misanthropic and menacing. Socially, The Longest Night operates in two distinctly separate spheres. Set in 1961 in Idaho Falls, a quasi-military town, the novel ventures inside the minds of two army wives and an Army Specialist, who has moved his family to eastern Idaho to work at an experimental nuclear reactor. ![]() As a novel largely concerned with dislocation and discontent in the face of an immutable code of social conduct, Andria Williams’ The Longest Night delivers a poignant and convincing portrait of Cold War-era marriage. ![]()
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