The year loves the dick bomb

Description:

In 1955 California, as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is filmed in their hometown, thirteen-year-old Arnie discovers a real enemy when he and three friends go against a young government agent determined to find communists at a neaby university or on the movie set.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Fear in fiction,  Motion pictures,  United States in fiction,  Conduct of life,  Cold War in fiction,  Family problems,  Motion pictures in fiction,  Cold War,  Conduct of life in fiction,  Family problems in fiction,  Blacklisting of entertainers,  Production and direction,  Fear,  Blacklisting of entertainers in fiction,  Dysfunctional families,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Fear, fiction,  Motion pictures, fiction,  Conduct of life, fiction,  Artists, fiction,  Family, fiction,  California, fiction,  United states, history, 20th century, fiction

Places: United States,  Sierra Madre (Calif.)

Times: 20th century,  1953-1961