Nickel Mountain

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Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453203422

<DIV><P><B><I>New York Times </I></B><B>Bestseller and National Book Award Finalist: In an upstate New York town, a man tries to save a teenage girl&mdash;and his own soul.</B><BR /><BR /> Henry Soames runs a diner in an eccentric rural community in the Catskills. He is anxious and overweight, and at age forty-two, suffers from poor health. When Callie Wells, Soames&rsquo;s seventeen-year-old employee, is impregnated by a local boy on his way to college, it becomes apparent that both are in need of a little help. After an unsuccessful attempt to find Callie a husband, Henry accepts the role. But soon after the improbable marriage commences, strange events occur in the small town, and Henry&rsquo;s pursuit of personal salvation begins.&#160;<BR /><BR /> Written by the author of <I>October Light</I> and <I>The Sunlight Dialogues</I>, <I>Nickel Mountain</I> is a wonderfully conceived narrative about one man&rsquo;s search for fulfillment in a lonely world.<BR /><BR /> &ldquo;There is enough life here for several novels .&#160;.&#160;. <I>Nickel Mountain</I> is worth the trip.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Chicago Sun-Times</I><BR /><BR /><I>This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives.</I></P></DIV>