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Nothing But a Smile

A Novel

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

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Feb 09, 2010 | ISBN 9780307390196

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    About Nothing But a Smile

    In his utterly charming story of a World War II veteran and an enterprising pinup girl, Steve Amick has created a beautifully understated love letter to an America of harder times and simpler choices.

    It’s 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, arrives in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him discharged. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton—the wife of Wink’s buddy, still stationed in the Philippines—Wink is surprised to learn how Sal is making ends meet: producing pinup photos for the soldiers’ 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 a collaboration that is both wonderfully sexy and pure, one that not only leads to Wink’s reinvention as a photographer but also—amid the painful adjustments of the postwar world—blossoms into a subtle and unexpected romance.

    About Nothing But a Smile

    In his utterly charming story of a World War II veteran and an enterprising pinup girl, Steve Amick has created a beautifully understated love letter to an America of harder times and simpler choices.

    It’s 1944, and Wink Dutton, a former illustrator for Yank and Stars and Stripes, arrives in Chicago after an injury to his drawing hand gets him discharged. Renting a room above the camera shop run by Sal Chesterton—the wife of Wink’s buddy, still stationed in the Philippines—Wink is surprised to learn how Sal is making ends meet: producing pinup photos for the soldiers’ 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 a collaboration that is both wonderfully sexy and pure, one that not only leads to Wink’s reinvention as a photographer but also—amid the painful adjustments of the postwar world—blossoms into a subtle and unexpected romance.

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    About Steve Amick

    Steve Amick is the author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Playboy, Story, the anthology The Sound of… More about Steve Amick

    About Steve Amick

    Steve Amick is the author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Playboy, Story, the anthology The Sound of… More about Steve Amick

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Anchor
    Feb 09, 2010 | 336 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307390196

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 10, 2009 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780307378057

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    Praise

    “Playful… Sweet…. A novel with all the happy gloss of a romantic comedy.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Amick’s expertly crafted novel combines an unusual love story with an intriguing, atmospheric peek into the American graphic-art world in the 1940s.”  —People

    “Pitch-perfect. . . . Amick gives us something increasingly rare—a love story with heart.” —Associated Press
     
     “A quirky, touching, and at times refreshingly masculine valentine. As [Amick] immerses us richly and authentically in an era essential to the formation of our national identity, he offers . . . a reminder, when we need it most, of why America remains a country with a vast potential for greatness.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes

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