Wish You Well (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Baldacci, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375430911 ISBN 13: 9780375430916

Verlag: Random House Large Print Publ, 2000

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Book by Baldacci David

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In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to leave New York and move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae Cardinal, but a climatic courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family and all those who have been touched by them. 20,000 first printing. (General Fiction)

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1953-and the worst of tragedies has struck the Cardinal family. A devestating car accident takes the life of Jack Cardinal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and leaves his young wife a bedridden invalid who has completely withdrawn. Lou and her younger brother Oz travel by train with their mother to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where their great-grandmother Louisa lives on a remote farm, ready and willing (if not financially prepared) to take the broken family in.

Rising every morning hours before dawn, working on the farm and learning at the school house their father attended years before, Lou and Oz slowly begin to heal emotionally and grow in unexpected ways. All while waiting for their silent mother to return to them. When a natural gas company comes to town and makes an offer on her land, Louisa refuses to sell. To keep their farm, with the weight of the company and their own greedy neighbors against them, the family must rely on tyhe kindliness of a town lawyer to try the

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House Large Print Publ
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375430911
• ISBN 13: 9780375430916
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 624