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- catalog abstract """OK, Joe!" the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter. Louis serves a group of American officers charged with bringing GIs to account for crimes - including rape and murder - against French citizens. The friendly banter of the American soldiers and the beautiful Breton landscape stand in contrast of Louis's task and his growing awareness of the moral failings of the Americans sent to liberate France. Keeping company with American soldiers and immersed in translating accounts of these horrific crimes, Louis encounters a casual and insidious racism in military culture as he comes to realize that the accused men are almost all African Americans." "Based on diaries that the author kept during his service as a translator for the U.S. Army in the aftermath of D-Day, OK, Joe follows Louis and the Americans as they negotiate with witnesses, investigate the crimes, and stage the courts-martial. Louis Guilloux has an uncanny ear for the snappy speech of the GIs and a tenderness for the young, unworldly men with whom he spends his days. In stark yet evocative vignettes and dialogues, he sketches the complex intersection of hope and disillusionment that prevailed after the war. Although the American presence in France has been romanticized in countless books and movies, OK, Joe offers something exceedingly rare: a French perspective on post-D-Day GI culture, a chronicle of trenchant racism and lost ideals."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "OK, Joe. English".
- catalog alternative "Okay, Joe".
- catalog contributor b13002132.
- catalog contributor b13002133.
- catalog coverage "France History World War, 1939-1945 Fiction.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description """OK, Joe!" the American lieutenant calls out to his driver. He hops into his jeep and heads out through French countryside just liberated from the Nazis. With him is the narrator of this novel, Louis, a Frenchman engaged by the American Army as an interpreter.".
- catalog description ""Based on diaries that the author kept during his service as a translator for the U.S. Army in the aftermath of D-Day, OK, Joe follows Louis and the Americans as they negotiate with witnesses, investigate the crimes, and stage the courts-martial. Louis Guilloux has an uncanny ear for the snappy speech of the GIs and a tenderness for the young, unworldly men with whom he spends his days. In stark yet evocative vignettes and dialogues, he sketches the complex intersection of hope and disillusionment that prevailed after the war.".
- catalog description "Although the American presence in France has been romanticized in countless books and movies, OK, Joe offers something exceedingly rare: a French perspective on post-D-Day GI culture, a chronicle of trenchant racism and lost ideals."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xvi).".
- catalog description "Keeping company with American soldiers and immersed in translating accounts of these horrific crimes, Louis encounters a casual and insidious racism in military culture as he comes to realize that the accused men are almost all African Americans."".
- catalog description "Louis serves a group of American officers charged with bringing GIs to account for crimes - including rape and murder - against French citizens. The friendly banter of the American soldiers and the beautiful Breton landscape stand in contrast of Louis's task and his growing awareness of the moral failings of the Americans sent to liberate France.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 121 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226310574 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "France History World War, 1939-1945 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "843/.912 21".
- catalog subject "PQ2613.U495 O513 2003".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Fiction.".
- catalog title "OK, Joe / Louis Guilloux ; translated and with an introduction by Alice Kaplan.".
- catalog title "OK, Joe. English".
- catalog title "Okay, Joe".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".