This Rock - Softcover

This Rock

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 384 pages. Text lightly tanned the new novel from the author of Gap Creek, an Oprah Book Club selection. thi s Rock is the gripping story of two brothers struggling against each other and t he confines of their 1920s Appalachian Mountain world.the Powell brothers are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is a shy 17-year-old with big dreams and not t he slightest idea of what to do about them. Moody, the older and wilder brother - embittered by the death of his father, by the years of fighting his mother, an d by his jealousy of Muir\'9291s privileged place in the family - takes to moons hine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes by wandering, making his way around the country in attempts to find something - an occupation , a calling. through it all, their mother, Ginny, tries to steer her boys right, all the while remembering her own losses.When Muir, in a drunken vision, discov ers his life's purpose, the consequences are far-reaching and irrevocable. All t hat's left in the aftermath are the ghosts and the memories of a new man. this R ock is Robert Morgan's most ambitious and accomplished novel yet. Artikel-Nr. 6596p

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