Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea

<p>The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch's <em> Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea</em>.His hardover sales have also never been higher. Taking its title from Walter Winchell's famous radio salutation <em> Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America </em> opens in Washington DC in 1964 just after the Kennedy assassination telling the story of Walter Marshall an idealistic 19-year-old who lives with his widowed mother and studies to be a journalist like his hero Edward R. Murrow. In this coming-of-age novel in the truest sense of the phrase young Marshall fumbles toward manhood in a nation that is itself in the midst of cataclysmic change.</p><p>With the same elegance and precision that has distinguished his other novels Richard Bausch has evoked a sense of time and place in a different America and brings the last 30 years of history profoundly and vividly to life.</p>