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Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2012-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616201784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616201789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gap Creek (Oprah's Book Club) by : Robert Morgan
A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank’s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to fear most—the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2014-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616203788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616203781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Road from Gap Creek by : Robert Morgan
One of America’s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family’s captivating story, set during World War II and the Great Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape. The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary times.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1033645041 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gap Creek by : Robert Morgan
An Oprah book club novel.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2012-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616201784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616201789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gap Creek (Oprah's Book Club) by : Robert Morgan
A New York Times Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club Pick Young Julie Harmon works “hard as a man,” they say, so hard that at times she’s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better. But Julie and Hank’s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to fear most—the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make Gap Creek a timeless story of a marriage.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0786225459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780786225453 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gap Creek by : Robert Morgan
Following the death of her younger brother and father, Juile Harman Richards marries Hank Richards and moves to Gap Creek, South Caroline where she faces more trials and tribulations with great dignity.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1841154954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781841154954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gap Creek by : Robert Morgan
A "New York Times" Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung Julie Harmon works hard as a man, they say, so hard that at times she s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank s new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined. Sometimes it s hard to tell what to fear most the fires and floods or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make "Gap Creek "a timeless story of a marriage."
Author |
: A. Manette Ansay |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2009-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780061760259 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0061760250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vinegar Hill by : A. Manette Ansay
In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.
Author |
: Mary McGarry Morris |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 772 |
Release |
: 1996-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101199473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101199474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Songs in Ordinary Time by : Mary McGarry Morris
It's the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont. Maria Fermoyle is a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen—involved with a young priest; Norm, sixteen—hotheaded and idealistic; and Benny, twelve—isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth he knows about Duvall. We also meet Sam Fermoyle, the children's alcoholic father; Sam's brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who—in contrast to the Fermoyles—live an orderly life in the house next door. Songs in Ordinary Time is a masterful epic of the everyday, illuminating the kaleidoscope of lives that tell the compelling story of this unforgettably family.
Author |
: Christina Schwarz |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307484055 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030748405X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drowning Ruth by : Christina Schwarz
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night. Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt's secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered. Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz's first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it.
Author |
: Robert Morgan |
Publisher |
: Algonquin Books |
Total Pages |
: 543 |
Release |
: 2012-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616201791 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616201797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Lions of the West by : Robert Morgan
From Thomas Jefferson’s birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America’s westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the North American continent, from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. Their stories—and those of the nameless thousands who risked their lives to settle on the frontier, displacing thou- sands of Native Americans—form an extraordinary chapter in American history that led directly to the cataclysm of the Civil War. Filled with illustrations, portraits, maps, battle plans, notes, and time lines, Lions of the West is a richly authoritative biography of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.