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The great-grandson of a missing man inherits his family's estate. But what happened to the missing man? And what has been left undone? Nothing is as it seems in this early tale from Max Brand. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Title: John Ovington Returns
Series: ----------
Author: Max Brand
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Western
Pages: 20
Words: 6.5K
Synopsis:
John Ovington returns to his ancestral home in Connecticut, to find a series of letters between his Great Grandfather and his fiance. Great Grandfather goes to war, the girl marries someone else and Great Grandfather vows he'll get the girl in the end.
John Ovington finds out he has a new neighbor, who looks exactly like Great Grandfather's fiance and that she is running off with a beau. She writes a series of letters exactly the same as the Great Grandfather's fiance and history begins to repeat itself.
John Ovington gets the girl and breaks the cycle that Fate had ordained for him.
My Thoughts:
For some reason, almost all the editions show this as being a full novel at over 500 pages. It is just a short story at 16-20 pages and I sure do feel bad for anyone who bought it (even for 99cents) thinking it was a full book.
The synopsis pretty much says it all. This is some sort of love, ghost, thingy, story. I tagged it western, but considering it takes place in Connecticut, probably “frontier” might have been more appropriate. I'm guessing this was for a magazine back when it was first published. It has 3 chapters and that fits with a serial short story in a magazine spread over 3 issues.
It was actually nice to read something so short and then be done. I spent 30 minutes or less reading it and then bam, finished. Truth be told, I've probably spent more time searching out the correct page number and writing this little piece than I did reading. While it feels like cheating (I'll including this as a “book” in my monthly roundup numbers), I think that including my Page Count numbers more than makes up for it.
Giddy'up!
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