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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Noah is a young man seeking peace in a post WWII world. His parents are dead, his brother in jail and the farm his family worked as share croppers has gone to a new family. Fishing along streams and creeks leads is wandering steps from Georgia into North Carolina and a small community called Valley of Light. ( ) Still reeling from his part in freeing Dachau, Noah Locke has spent the 3 years since the war wandering the South, fishing, occasionally doing odd jobs, but mostly living off the land. His beloved parents are dead and his only brother in prison, and Noah needs to find something within himself to give him the peace to come to terms with his experiences and reenter his pre-war life. In his travels he meets an old man who tells him of a valley in North Carolina and a pond in which lives a warrior bass undetected by locals, who think the pond is cursed and devoid of fish. Noah is a gifted fisherman, seemingly at one with the water and his prey, and when he happens on the valley the fascinated residents urge him to stay for their annual fishing contest. He finds them good company and even meets a woman with whom he shares some pleasant meals and conversation, but as the ensuing week passes there is a tragedy in the town which affects him deeply. As he prepares to leave and finally return home, there is one last miracle, and it is a beautiful ending to a gentle story. I think I'll keep this book, so that now and then I can go back and read those last few pages. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The novel begins when a stranger comes to town...Noah Locke, a gifted fisherman, has wandered up from Georgia, doing odd jobs and fishing. Noah had been with the Forty-second Infantry when they liberated Dachau and images of what he saw there still haunt his dreams. The friendly residents of Bowerstown, N.C. take an interest in the mysterious young man and encourage him to stay at least until the annual fishing contest. Littleberry Davis, the six-time champion has become too arrogant and the townsfolk would like to see him taken down a peg. Noah agrees to stay and is given a room by a young widow whose soldier husband killed himself shortly after returning home from the war. Over the course of the next week, Noah will be let into the secret lives of the town's residents and join with them as they mourn a tragedy. The novel ends with a miracle that surprises everyone except Noah...and will be the sign he needed to find his way home at last.Beautifully capturing the rhythms and personalities of small town life, Terry Kay's novel is a tender celebration of the special gifts inside each of us. The simplicity of Kay's prose belies the mythic nature of his story. Luminous, memorable, and deeply moving, The Valley of Light is Kay's finest work to date. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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