Letters
to Loretta from the Radio Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story
By
Laura Lynn Ashworth
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Letters
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the rare and recently discovered real time letters between Sal,
age 19, and Loretta, age 15, during the final terrifying three
years of World War II, 1943-1945. Both from the Douglas Park
neighborhood in Chicago, the two adolescents discuss with humor
and candor, the Navy, war, politics, hit music, life back home
and their relationship. Sal nicknamed Slabby for his movie star
good looks, deciphers code out of the Navy’s radio shack on a
minesweeper in the Pacific. Loretta monikered Duchess for her
aloofness, lives with aunts and her widowed father, while
holding day jobs and enjoying an active social life with
friends. Letters to Loretta from the Radio Shack lets you
experience World War II, both in battle and on the home front,
through the eyes of adolescents in a way that Hollywood has
never portrayed.
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Laura Lynn Ashworth Bio:
Laura Lynn Ashworth is an award-winning copywriter and political cartoonist. While helping an elderly family member with veterans administration paperwork, she ran across “the letters” and instantly knew of their rarity, freshness and historical significance. Although she received three publishing contracts within two months of sending the letters to major publishers, Ashworth decided to publish them herself on the advice of best-selling authors. She currently lives and works in a northwest suburb of Chicago.
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Tour
Schedule:
January 5
Book reviewed at Rainy
Day Reviews
January 6
Book featured at 3
Partners in Shopping
January 7
Book reviewed at Reviews
From the Heart
January 8
Guest blogging at What
is That Book About
January 9
Book featured at The
Dark Phantom
January 12
Interviewed at Review
From Here
January 14
Interviewed at The
Writer’s Life
January 15
Interviewed and Guest blogging at Carpe
Librum
January 19
Interviewed at Literal
Exposure
January 20
Book featured at I’m
Shelf-ish
January 22
Guest blogging at Bent
Over Bookwords
January 23
Book featured at The
Literary Nook
January 26
Book reviewed at Navy
Wife, Navy Life
January 27
Interviewed at Niume
January 28
Book reviewed at Manners
and Mayhem
January 29
Book featured at The
Revolving Bookshelf
January 30
Interviewed at Becky
on Books…and Quilts
Thank you so much for hosting this tour!
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