Homer Macauley,14, is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger ever seen in a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley. So now Homer must take care of his bereaved mother, elder sister, and 4-year-old brother Ulysses. That's how Homer Macauley brings love, hope, pain... and death to the wonderful people of Ithaca in 1942. Also, Homer Macauley will be confronted with a message that will forever alter his identity. A classic wartime narrative of the home front, ITHACA is based on Pulitzer Prize winner William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human Comedy. It's a story about growing up, about the joy of youth, the sting of life, the modesty and goodness that we all possess.
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Homer Macauley,14, is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger ever seen in a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley. So now Homer must take care of his bereaved mother, elder sister, and 4-year-old brother Ulysses. That's how Homer Macauley brings love, hope, pain... and death to the wonderful people of Ithaca in 1942. Also, Homer Macauley will be confronted with a message that will forever alter his identity. A classic wartime narrative of the home front, ITHACA is based on Pulitzer Prize winner William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human Comedy. It's a story about growing up, about the joy of youth, the sting of life, the modesty and goodness that we all possess.
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