Amick, Steve.

Nothing but a smile / A Novel Steve Amick. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c2009. - 320 p. ; 22 cm.

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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.

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World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Fiction.
Homecoming--Fiction.


Chicago (Ill.)--Fiction.
Michigan--Fiction.


Love stories.

PS3601.M53 / N68 2009

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