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As the clock ticks down the final minute of World War II in Europe, Sixty Seconds tells the stories of nine people on both sides of the Atlantic—a legendary war correspondent, a madwoman and her unwitting accomplice in a deranged assassination attempt, a fifteen-year-old girl singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in Times Square, her soldier brother still in Germany, a Nazi war criminal undergoing interrogation, a German foot soldier frantically dodging Russian patrols as he attempts to surrender to Americans, and a Polish couple who endured the seemingly unendurable only to be separated by an ocean as they are about to become parents. Individually and together, these seemingly disparate and yet inextricably intertwined people hurtle toward their own climactic finishes as midnight and the official beginning of V-E Day approaches on 7 May 1945.
I believe a writer should keep readers firmly attached to the narrator’s hip and not waste their time, that it’s possible to forward a serious point without making one feel wretched, and that the simple declarative sentence is usually more elegant than a florid metaphor.
I also believe dogs are superior to humans because their only real goal is to be good, that baseball is the greatest game in the world, and that coffee and donuts are proof of a superior intelligence.
“…entertaining escapades and dramatic flourishes, punctuated by moments of delightfully farcical humor.” — Foreword Reviews
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