Ernie's Ark - The Abbott Falls Stories (Paperback, Includes an additional story and a foreword by the author.)

"Like Elizabeth Strout, her fellow chronicler of small-town Maine life, Monica Wood imbues her characters with the complexity and humanity of real people. Ernie's Ark is as true as life."-Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train In ten interlinking stories, the town of Abbot Falls reacts as Ernie Whitten, pipefitter, builds a giant ark in his backyard. Ernie was weeks away from a pension-secured retirement when the union went on strike. Now his wife Marie is ill. Struck with sudden inspiration, Ernie builds the ark as a work of art for his wife to see from the window; a vessel to carry them both away; or a plea for God to spare Marie, come hell or high water. As the ark takes shape, the rest of the town carries on. There's Dan Little, a building-code enforcer who comes to fine Ernie for the ark and makes a significant discovery about himself; Francine Love, a precocious thirteen-year-old who longs to be a part of the family-like world of the union workers; and Atlantic Pulp & Paper CEO Henry John McCoy, an impatient man wearily determined to be a good father to his twenty-six-year-old daughter. The people of Abbott Falls will try their best to hold a community together, against the fiercest of odds. . . . Few writers can capture the extraordinary within seemingly ordinary lives as does Monica Wood. An unforgettable tapestry of love, loneliness-and neighbors.

General

Imprint:	David R. Godine Publisher
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Monica Wood
Dimensions:	191 x 127 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	240
Edition:	Includes an additional story and a foreword by the author.
ISBN-13:	978-1-56792-668-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-56792-668-1
Barcode:	9781567926682

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