The Wind Is Not a River (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Payton, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410468690 ISBN 13: 9781410468697

Verlag: THORNDIKE PR, 2014

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"Beautifully written, lyrical and elegiac, "The Wind Is Not A River" is a novel you must read...John Easley's struggle to survive and his wife Helen's struggle to find him form the most triumphant and heartbreaking love story I've read in years."--David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island

"Not since "Cold Mountain" have I read such a brilliantly sustained metaphor for our collective guilt and grief, nor such a stirring testament to the redemptive power of love. We need this novel now."--Wayne Grady, author of "Emancipation Day"

"This moving and powerfully written novel explores themes of war, life and death, morality, and love in a unique World War II battleground that very few people outside Alaska know about or remember...Payton...has written a suspenseful, beautifully researched title that readers will want to devour in one sitting."--Library Journal (starred review)

"Payton, in the loveliest of prose, illuminates a little-known aspect of WWII while portraying a devoted couple who bravely face down the isolation, pain, and sacrifice of wartime."--Booklist

"What a great-hearted, beautifully written, and utterly riveting novel. It has a power that brings to mind the old Greek stories of war, love, and journey."--Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena and Nothing Gold Can Stay

"Beautifully written, lyrical and elegiac, The Wind Is Not A River is a novel you must read...John Easley's struggle to survive and his wife Helen's struggle to find him form the most triumphant and heartbreaking love story I've read in years."--David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide and Caribou Island

"Not since Cold Mountain have I read such a brilliantly sustained metaphor for our collective guilt and grief, nor such a stirring testament to the redemptive power of love. We need this novel now."--Wayne Grady, author of Emancipation Day

"A haunting love story wrapped in an engaging and unsettling history lesson...Along the way, readers will learn not just about a fascinating and largely forgotten slice of American history, but what it felt like to live through it."--USA Today

"Set against a meticulously described Alaskan setting, each harrowing or quietly painful minute is portrayed in realistic detail...The book arcs poetically across the distance between Helen and John, drawing out the separation that they (and the reader) can hardly bear."--BookPage

"Payton crafts a beautiful, heart-inspiring and heart-wrenching tale of love, forgiveness, loneliness, the strength of the human spirit, and the power of faith in God and family. These are not the stories we heard from our parents, but they are believable nonetheless."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Reseña del editor:

Desperate to understand the war that claimed the life of his brother, journalist John Easley heads to the Territory of Alaska to investigate the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, a story censored by the U.S. government, while the wife he left behind is forced to reimagine who she is and what she is capable of doing after he disappears. (historical fiction).

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• Verlag: THORNDIKE PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1410468690
• ISBN 13: 9781410468697
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 445