Slow Way Home: A Novel - Rilegato

Morris, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0060568984 ISBN 13: 9780060568986

Casa editrice: Harper San Francisco, 2003

Riassunto

When a drug-addicted mother successfully regains legal custody of her young son, he flees with his protective grandparents, who assume new identities in a turbulent southern town. By the author of A Place Called Wiregrass. 50,000 first printing.

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“Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel.” (--Homer Hickam, author of October Sky)

“Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read.” (--Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls)

“Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is a fine book.” (Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora)

“A gentle story suffused with brutal truths, almost fable-like in its resonant simplicity.....a journey well worth taking.” (--Tim Farrington, author of The Monk Downstairs)

“In a remarkably consistent narrative voice, Morris takes us along for a moving, funny ride...” (--Silas House, author of Clay's Quilt and A Parchment of Leaves)

“Slow Way Home is a journey of the human spirit and its themes... make it a novel for the ages.” (--Richard Paul Evans, author of The Christmas Box)

“Master storyteller Michael Morris has delivered another stunning novel....touching, truthful, and beautifully written. It is not to be missed!” (--Lynne Hinton, author of Friendship Cake)

“a compulsively readable novel with many fine passages on the importance of home and the comforts of faith.” (Booklist)

“[A] tour de force... told in a Southern style that invites readers in and asks them to stay awhile.” (--Gadsden Times (Northeast AL))

“Michael Morris is someone to watch .. .[Slow Way Home is] courageous and heartbreaking and moving....” (--The Birmingham News)

L'autore:

A fifth-generation native of Perry, Florida, a rural area near Tallahassee, Michael Morris knows southern culture and characters. It is the foundation and inspiration for the stories and novels he writes.

Upon graduating from Auburn University, Michael worked for U.S. Senator Bob Graham and then became a sales representative for pharmaceutical companies. As a sales representative, Michael decided to follow a life-long desire and began writing in the evenings. The screenplay he penned during this time is still someplace in the bottom of a desk drawer.

It is when Michael accepted a position in government affairs and moved to North Carolina that he began to take writing more seriously. While studying under author Tim McLaurin, Michael started writing the story that would eventually become his first novel, A Place Called Wiregrass. The novel was released in April, 2002 and is currently in its third printing. A Place Called Wiregrass was named a Booksense 76 selection by members of the American Independent Booksellers Association as and is part of the southern literature curriculum at two universities. Michael's latest novel, Slow Way Home, will be released by Harper Collins on September 23 and his work can be seen in the southern anthology Stories From The Blue Moon Café II.

Michael and his wife, Melanie, reside in Fairhope, Alabama.

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• Editore: Harper San Francisco
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060568984
• ISBN 13: 9780060568986
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 288