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The Trackers
Charles Frazier
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and
Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life
in the Great Depression Hurtling past the downtrodden communities
of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to
the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's
landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the
region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John
Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling
ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an
itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing
band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI
sniper--and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige
of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by
their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in
tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of
tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San
Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val's search for Eve
narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable
changes for all of them. In The Trackers, singular American writer
Charles Frazier conjures up the lives of everyday people during an
extraordinary period of history that bears uncanny resemblance to
our own. With the keen perceptions of humanity and transcendent
storytelling that have made him beloved for decades, Frazier has
created a powerful and timeless new classic.
The stunning new novel from the author of international
million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden
communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels
westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of
luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural
representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art
lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at
their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve
left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a
western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was
once a WWI sniper—and his right hand is a mysterious elder
cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds
himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a
valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road
with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle
Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida,
Val's search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that
could spark formidable changes for all of them.
The stunning new novel from the author of international
million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden
communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels
westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of
luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural
representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art
lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at
their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve
left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a
western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was
once a WWI sniper—and his right hand is a mysterious elder
cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds
himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a
valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road
with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle
Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida,
Val's search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that
could spark formidable changes for all of them.
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction An instant,
international bestseller, Charles Frazier's debut novel of love and
peril at the end of the Civil War was a publishing sensation, the
inspiration for an Oscar-nominated blockbuster starring Nicole
Kidman and Jude Law, and the subject of an acclaimed opera. Over 20
years later, it stands as an essential, modern classic. Charles
Frazier's debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history in 1997
when it stood at the top of the New York Times best-seller list for
sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the
National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies.
Now reissued for its twentieth year, this extraordinary tale of a
soldier's perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the
Civil War is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love
story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land. Adapted into an
Oscar-nominated movie starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, and a
2015 opera co-commissioned between Santa Fe Opera, Opera
Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera, Cold Mountain portrays an era
that continues to speak eloquently to our time.
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the
joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think,
and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers
offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all
featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to
learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the
world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in
pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction
of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a
broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency,
improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express
themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the
joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think,
and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers
offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all
featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to
learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the
world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life in
pages of our Readers. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction
of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a
broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency,
improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express
themselves. Find out more at english.com/readers
THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. 'Magnificent' Observer 'A
beautiful book, written in exquisite prose' Kate Atkinson A soldier
wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of
the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold
Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As
Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the
devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles
to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he
died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. From the
bestselling author of Nightwoods, this novel inspired the
Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella and starring
Nicole Kidman, Jude Law, and Renee Zellweger.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a
key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a
trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows
into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to
create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian
named Featherstone, Will wins - for a brief moment - a mysterious
girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this
novel. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee
Indians, including a Cherokee Chief named Bear, he learns how to
fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and
eventually, under the Corn Tassle Moon, Will begins the fight
against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and
culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that
'only desire trumps time'. Brilliantly imagined, written with great
power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is
a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss,
longing and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a
life.
Building on its successful 27 Views series, Eno Publishers
showcases the literary community of Asheville, North Carolina, in
27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose &
Poetry. Twenty-seven writers contribute poetry, essays, short
stories, and book excerpts that focus on the fabled mountain town,
offering readers a broad and varied picture of life in Asheville,
past and present, as well as a sense of the town's literary
breadth. Contributing authors include Sharyn McCrumb, Gail Godwin,
Ron Rash, Pamela Duncan, Nan Chase, Allan Wolf, Dale Neal, Charles
Frazier, and Robert Morgan. A fictionalized account of a battle
between citizens and developers in the 1980s; reflections on the
legacy of Thomas Wolfe; a look at Asheville's literary renaissance;
and a poem by Robert Morgan recalling milkshakes at the Asheville
Dairy Bar are just a few of the topics covered in this literary
montage. The cover illustration is by Daniel Wallace, author of the
novel Big Fish.
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Varina (Paperback)
Charles Frazier
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
Save R57 (18%)
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The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold
Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the
American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played
a part at the heart of it. Sooner or later, history asks: which
side were you on? 'Moving' Sunday Times 'Here's a woman of the
Civil War to outshine Scarlett O'Hara' The Times 'Beneath the
chilling, photogenic story, the writing remains beautiful' -
Independent With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her
father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best
option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom
she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he
instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of
the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of
the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of
her intentions. As the Confederacy prepares to surrender and she
finds herself friendless and alone, Varina and her children escape
Richmond. With her marriage in tatters and the country divided,
they travel south, now fugitives with 'bounties on their heads, an
entire nation in pursuit'.
In 1998, reaction to the Pocket Canons came in Biblical
proportions. The simplicity of the idea, the quality of the
introductions and the appeal of the format and design made the
series an enormous international success. Collected together for
the first time, this anthology of these introductions features a
wonderfully diverse group of writers, each of whom provides
considered, personal and sometimes controversial responses to
individual books of the Bible, be it Bono on Psalms, AS Byatt on
the Song of Solomon, Louis de Bernieres on Job or the Dalai Lama on
the Epistles.
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Nightwoods (Paperback)
Charles Frazier
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R312
R254
Discovery Miles 2 540
Save R58 (19%)
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The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on
anybody. In the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore
of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty,
decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days
are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and
yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and
the perfect escape. Until the stranger children come. Bringing
fire. And murder. And love.
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