The Lamplighter of Ember - A Novel: A Small-Town Novel of Hidden Kindness - Softcover

The Lamplighter of Ember - A Novel : A Small-Town Novel of Hidden Kindness

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nobody in Ember ever guessed who he was. That was the point.On the morning of his sixteenth birthday, Danny Coyle meant to run away on the midnight freight. Instead, a cream-colored envelope arrived - from someone who knew things nobody could know. The coal carried in secret. The temper held. The plan no one had been told.It was 1932, the mill was failing, and the town of Ember, Ohio, was learning how to be poor. And someone had begun writing birthday cards to its struggling young people - each card a witness to their year, a plain statement of what they were, and one target for the year ahead, with a door, an hour, and a first sentence to say when it opened. Signed never with a name. Only with two words: The Lamplighter.For forty-two years the cards kept coming - following Ember's sons to war, arriving in the darkest weeks, quietly turning overlooked children into the doctors, teachers, and tenders who would one day save the town itself. And when Ember finally buries its most invisible man and opens a locked drawer, it discovers that everything it became was built by the one person it never once thought to look at.A novella about the quiet ones who hold towns together, for readers of Theo of Golden, A Man Called Ove, and Tuesdays with Morrie. Read it, cry a little, and then - as thousands of Ember's children learned - write somebody a card.Inspired by the true story of 'B. Virdot,' the anonymous Depression-era benefactor of Canton, Ohio. Artikel-Nr. 9798188425944

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