The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
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Timely and timeless, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel
about an act of violence in a small, Southern town and the
repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human
cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger
brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and
his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's
grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia,
Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink
who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The
events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of
Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar is beset by a massive mountaintop removal
operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the
hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally
the citizens against the ",company", and its powerful owner to stop
the plunder of their mountain heritage. When Buzzy witnesses a
brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that tests Buzzy and
Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in
the Kentucky mountains. Redemptive and emotionally resonant, THE
SECRET WISDOM OF THE EARTH is narrated by an adult Kevin looking
back on the summer when he sloughed the coverings of a boy and took
his first faltering steps as a man. His story is one with a rich
cast of characters and an ambitious effort to reclaim a once great
community.
Výber kníh autorov
Grand Central Publishing ,
Christopher Scotton
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Grand Central Publishing,
Christopher Scotton
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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