On the spring tide : a special kind of courage / by William Rowan
Title
On the spring tide : a special kind of courage / by William Rowan
Subject
Breast--Cancer--Etiology.
Breast--Cancer--Patients--United States--Biography.
Breast--Cancer--Psychosomatic aspects.
Ex-prisoners of war--United States--Biography.
Rowan, Jeanette West, 1927-1993.
Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
Description
Creative fiction work telling the story of Jeanette West, an American born in Manila in 1927.
Her father occupied a high position in the Philippine Commonwealth’s Bureau of Science and had taught at the University of the Philippines; her mother had been a teacher at Philippine Normal College. The family was interned by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation; the three were in Santo Tomas for three full years.
This part biographical story (with several names fictionalized, and an imaginary estate on Luzon) follows her years growing up in the Philippines, the internment in Santo Tomas, the liberation and repatriation to the US. The remaining two thirds of the book deal with her adjustment to a new life in the US, marriage, and the discovery of cancer in the 1980s. He writes of her struggle to overcome the disease, seeking various remedies, only to succumb in the end.
Jeanette and the author – Jeanette’s husband – believed that the cancer came as result of stress caused by internment during the war, one of the deeper side effects of the war.
Her father occupied a high position in the Philippine Commonwealth’s Bureau of Science and had taught at the University of the Philippines; her mother had been a teacher at Philippine Normal College. The family was interned by the Japanese during the Japanese occupation; the three were in Santo Tomas for three full years.
This part biographical story (with several names fictionalized, and an imaginary estate on Luzon) follows her years growing up in the Philippines, the internment in Santo Tomas, the liberation and repatriation to the US. The remaining two thirds of the book deal with her adjustment to a new life in the US, marriage, and the discovery of cancer in the 1980s. He writes of her struggle to overcome the disease, seeking various remedies, only to succumb in the end.
Jeanette and the author – Jeanette’s husband – believed that the cancer came as result of stress caused by internment during the war, one of the deeper side effects of the war.
Creator
Rowan, William.
Publisher
Greensboro, NC : Cenografix, c1998
Date
1998
Format
22 x 14 cm.
Type
Softbound
Identifier
966286049
Call Number
RC 280 .B8 R687 1998
Accession Number
13791
Pagination
x, 202 p.
Files
Collection
Citation
Rowan, William., “On the spring tide : a special kind of courage / by William Rowan,” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed December 6, 2025, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/363.