Wilderness A Novel

Lance Weller

eBook - 2012

Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war.As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he took part... in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life-from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and...

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Published
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Main Author
Lance Weller
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9781620400616
Release Date9/4/2012
Kindle Book
ASINB007Y5IZ06
Release Date9/4/2012
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781620400616
Release Date9/4/2012