A Still Small Voice - Hardcover

Reed, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385334052 ISBN 13: 9780385334051

Verlag: Delacorte Pr, 2000

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Book by Reed John

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Orphan Alma Flynt's comfortable life in Cotterpin Creek, Kentucky, and her growing relationship with John Warren, the youngest son of her wealthy neighbors, the Clevelands, is turned upside down by the hardship, devastation, loss, and grief of the Civil War. A first novel.

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a storyteller's grace and a poet's touch, A Still Small Voice is the magnificent work of a gifted young novelist. Taking its place beside the great novels of the Civil War, John Reed's sweeping saga is at once a passionate love story and a powerful human drama set against a vivid backdrop of a nation at war.

The year is 1859. As this breathtaking novel opens, seven-year-old Alma Flynt arrives in the small Kentucky town of Cotterpin Creek to begin a new life in her aunt's home. There, a whole new world opens up before her eyes-a world of impossible grace and comfort, of lush pastures and billowing bluegrass. And there, Alma will meet a family who will shape the course of her life.

The Clevelands, with their sprawling mansion and gleaming thoroughbred horses, are magnificent. But from the beginning, one Cleveland draws all her attention-the youngest son, John Warren. Of their childhood bond, Alma later recalls: "The stubborn fact was, without the slightest h

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• Verlag: Delacorte Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0385334052
• ISBN 13: 9780385334051
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 351