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April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast, about Adam Cooper's coming of age during the Battle of Lexington. One critic notes that in the beginning of the novel he is "dressed down by his father, Moses, misunderstood by his mother, Sarah, and plagued by his brother, Levi."
Apr 24, 1988 · April Morning: Directed by Delbert Mann. With Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Blakely, Chad Lowe, Robert Urich. On the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with the "shot heard 'round the world".
April Morning (TV Movie 1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
April Morning is a historical fiction work by Howard Fast, a prolific author whose writings spanned the bulk of the 20th century. Published in 1961, midway through Fast’s career, the novel is one of many he wrote on the Revolutionary War and the birth of America.
April Morning is about a fifteen-year-old named Adam who lives in the small town of Lexington just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Tensions are high between the colonists and their government, and militias known as “Committees” are popping up around the thirteen colonies.
This is a study guide for the book April Morning written by Howard Fast. April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast depicting the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the perspective of a fictional teenager, Adam Cooper.
Superstitious teenager Adam Cooper (Chad Lowe) struggles to gain the approval of his intellectual and devout Christian father, Moses (Tommy Lee Jones)....
- History, Drama
Nov 1, 1983 · Historically it recounts the morning of April 18-19, 1775 and the first battle of the Revolutionary war. The story is told through the eyes of Adam Cooper, a boy of 15. We have the teenage angst of a boy feeling unloved by his father, who is a strict disciplinarian.
- Howard Fast
When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man.
A television movie adaptation of Howard Fast's novel about the bloody confrontation at the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord that precipitated the American Revolution, as seen through the experiences of one family.
