Word: objectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Donato was a conscientious objector in World War II, eventually settled with his wife on Long Island in a white, wooden colonial house ("I was so sick of brick") and tried to overcome his writer's block. By 1958 he managed to publish a sex potboiler, This Woman. In his latest novel, he shows himself thoroughly unblocked. Revisiting the scene of his first book-the Italian colony of West Hoboken, N.J.-he has written a piece of immigrant Americana that has no more narrative line than an antipasto, but glints with passion and pathos, cruelty and laughter...