Silver Thaw

by Ron Johnson
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Publish Date: December 31, 2004
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SILVER THAW is set in the late '60s in the Great Central Valley of California. It's a story of four friends forced to confront the moral, sexual and political parameters which will define their adult lives. There is the loss of innocence precipitated by the Vietnam War, but the main battle is an internal struggle that each must encounter and confront within themselves. ART is a quiet, independent-minded college student who wants to become a high school shop teacher. He has recently become intimate with JUNE, a survivor of the working class trailor park, where her mother died of alcoholism. She is attending college to escape the pain of her past. Her roomate HONEY is seeking a life with a man she can believe in. An elemental, aggressive woman, sexually confident, HONEY is a woman by whom men define themselves. She is falling in love with JESS, who is finishing college under the Army ROTC program. JESS wants a part of Vietnam, and he wants HONEY.

Author Information

Ron Johnson

Ron Johnson is a professor of English at Northern
Michigan University. He holds an MFA in creative
writing from the University of California, Irvine, and
a PhD in English from the University of Utah.

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