The Twelve Streams of LeConte - Brossura

Bennett, Jenny

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9780692213605: The Twelve Streams of LeConte

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ISBN 10: 0692213600 ISBN 13: 9780692213605

Casa editrice: Anakeesta Books, 2014

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Anne Woodrow is on honeymoon in Scotland when fate gives her a slap in the face: right then and there, her new husband falls in love with another woman. Injured and grieving, she returns home alone and conceives of a project of renewal. She will climb Mt. LeConte in the Smokies by way of the twelve streams that drain its slopes—a strenuous, dangerous activity. She makes her way up the streams without benefit of a trail, scrambling beside shining cascades. Her companions on the stream journeys are a trio of crass and funny hiking pals. A relationship develops with a man—but it doesn’t turn out the way she expects. The stream journeys are interwoven in an unconventional way with her experience of reading The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, published 1915. Its peculiar and shadowy scenes resonate with actual events. The Twelve Streams of LeConte brings together mirroring worlds of adventure tales and mountains. It speaks the language of people who engage the landscape rather than admire it from a distance, and it unapologetically explores the life of a serious reader.

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AUTHOR BIO—JENNY BENNETT Jenny Bennett has a B.A. in Philosophy from New College, Sarasota, FL, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. For 18 years, she was a journalist reporting on international energy markets and served as U.S. Editor for a Financial Times newsletter, speaking at international conferences. Since then she has been a freelance editor with her company, Summer Afternoon Editing. She authored a murder mystery set in the Smoky Mountains, Murder at the Jumpoff, published March 2012 by Canterbury House. Her current work, The Twelve Streams of LeConte, also involves adventure in the Smokies but is literary fiction, not a genre work. For the past five years she has been well known in the Smokies hiking community for her blog, Endless Streams and Forests, http://streamsandforests.wordpress.com. It covers details of difficult off-trail routes as well as other subjects. Her author’s website is http://jennybennett.net.

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