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Thief of Dreams - A Novel (Paperback)
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Thief of Dreams - A Novel (Paperback)
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The tender, engaging story of a family in pain and a boy whose
quest for courage leads him deep into the wilds of Appalachia In
1948 Madeline Tally leaves her philandering husband and returns
home to North Carolina, where she and her thirteen-year-old son,
James, move into an ugly purple trailer in the cow pasture behind
her father's farmhouse. Smart and sensitive, James worries that he
is somehow responsible for his parents' separation and feels out of
place in the town where he grew up but has not been back to for
five years. None of his old friends have time for him anymore, and
his only new one is Lester Buck, a poor, peculiar boy who shares
James's love of the outdoors. In Pittsburgh, Edward Tally spends
his nights drinking with his fellow construction workers in the bar
downstairs from his new apartment. He tries to tell himself that he
is better off without Madeline and James, that he wants to be his
own man again, free of the expectations that he was never able to
meet. But there is a burden on his heart that cannot be eased by
booze or by Paris Pergola, the seductive, moody blonde he has taken
up with. Told from the alternating perspectives of the three
Tallys, Thief of Dreams builds to a stunning climax as Edward comes
to North Carolina to try to win back his family, and James and
Lester get into a vicious fight with a schoolyard bully. With his
friend in the hospital and his parents unable to bridge the divide
between them, James heads into the frozen forest. What he discovers
there will give him enough wisdom and experience to last a
lifetime, if he can only make it back to his family alive.
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