Ernie's Ark (Ballantine Reader's Circle) - Softcover

Wood, Monica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345452720 ISBN 13: 9780345452726

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 2003

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A collection of nine interrelated stories is set in the small town of Abbott Falls, Maine, and follows the community's reaction to a devastating mill strike, during which a man on the brink of retirement finds new purpose in building an ark in his backyard. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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The paper mill looms up from the riverbank in Abbott Falls, Maine, a town once drenched with ordinary hopes and dreams, now praying for a small drop of good fortune. Ernie Whitten, a pipe fitter, was three weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike eight months ago. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration, Ernie builds a giant ark in his backyard. It is a work of art for his wife; a vessel to carry them both away; or a plea for God to spare Marie, come hell or high water. As the ark takes shape, the rest of the town carries on. There’s Dan Little, a building-code enforcer who comes to fine Ernie for the ark and makes a significant discovery about himself; Francine Love, a precocious thirteen-year-old who longs to be a part of the family-like world of the union workers; and Atlantic Pulp & Paper CEO Henry John McCoy, an impatient man wearily determined to be a good father to his twenty-six-year-old daughter. The people of Abbott Falls will try their best to hold a community together, against the fiercest of odds. . . .

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• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0345452720
• ISBN 13: 9780345452726
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208