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Tim McLaurin is a
writer of exquisite compassion, who sees the ugliness of life well
enough, but in the end writes about 'the secrets of the stars.' --Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
McLaurin has a
knack for moving to the heart of the human experience and for doing so
with grace and simple eloquence. --Chicago Tribune
John Wesley Stewart is dead.
And the way of life that he has known is going with him.
He has fruitfully and
lovingly farmed three hundred acres. He has lived in harmony with his
land, with the creatures of field and forest, and of the burbling river.
Even the serpent respects him.
He has loved his three
children. He has longed for his dead wife. And he has been fair with his
hired man, Fenner. A good man, John Wesley Stewart.
But he has not left behind to
his son his love for the land, his ability to feel the soil and sniff it
and know that it is ready for planting. David understands only books and
figures.
And to his daughter Julia he
has left resentment--and responsibility for his youngest child, Lola,
the innocent one, the woman-child.
What is to happen to Lola?
And what is to happen to the land?
In this powerful and deeply
moving narrative, told in six voices, including that of the serpent, Tim
McLaurin proves himself to be the poet his novels have always promised.
about the author
Tim McLaurin was a Marine and Peace Corps volunteer who once was
known as Wild Man Mac, proprietor of a traveling snake show. He was the
author of several other books, including The Acorn Plan, Cured
by Fire, The Last Great Snake Show, Lola,
Keeper of the Moon,
The River Less Run,
and Another Son of
Man. He died in 2002.
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