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Cargando... Seek the Living: A Novelpor Ashley Warlick
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I read this book becuase the author came to the library to speak. It's a Southern Gothic type of novel. The author has a beautiful way with words. But I did not like the characters and felt the story was disjointed and unresolved. ( ) Woman tries to cope with her dysfunctional family, her baby hunger, and her struggling marriage. The quintessential literary novel. Excellent writing, vivid and beautifully rendered. Strange characters that ring true. The weirdest Christmas and New Year’s I have ever heard of, in life or fiction. Little to no plot, and minimal resolution. But that is what I have come to expect from a literary novel. I also read her The Summer After June and I actually liked this novel better. The more I think about the protagonist of “June” the less I like her. Of course, there are some characters in this novel that are not very likable either, but I was more moved by this novel. www.samfsmith.com sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Set in the landscape of the new South, with its aging farms and low-rent strip malls, Seek the Living tells the story of a strong-minded young woman whose past catches up with her." "When Joan Patee's wayward brother, Denny, breaks one heart too many and takes a beating for it, their father sends Joan to set him straight. Since her mother's death, Joan has had to keep the peace between these two proud men. She yearns for the support of her husband, Marshall, whose job keeps him constantly on the road. His visits home are all too brief, filled with a passion made even more urgent by their desire to have a child." "Joan finds Denny worse off than she expected. After losing a string of odd jobs, he's tending an old churchyard and hiding out with an enigmatic new girlfriend. And he's onto a money-making scheme: he has discovered some artifacts in unmarked graves that may date to the Civil War, and he intends to profit from them, legally or otherwise. Joan turns for help to the only person she can think of, an old friend from their wild youth, the renegade Lewis, a man of great charm and dubious wealth. Through Denny and Lewis, Joan is drawn into a spiral of shady dealings and peculiar town secrets, some dangerously close to her heart. For years she has harbored the memory of a willful affair that ended tragically. As Denny unearths hidden graves, Joan unearths long-buried emotions that threaten to harm everyone she loves."--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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