Wish You Well - Rilegato

Baldacci, David

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375430911 ISBN 13: 9780375430916

Casa editrice: Random House Large Print, 2000

Riassunto

In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to leave New York and move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, Louisa Mae Cardinal, but a climatic courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family and all those who have been touched by them. 20,000 first printing. (General Fiction)

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L'autore

David Baldacci lives in Virginia with his wife and children.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

1953-and the worst of tragedies has struck the Cardinal family. A devestating car accident takes the life of Jack Cardinal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and leaves his young wife a bedridden invalid who has completely withdrawn. Lou and her younger brother Oz travel by train with their mother to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where their great-grandmother Louisa lives on a remote farm, ready and willing (if not financially prepared) to take the broken family in.

Rising every morning hours before dawn, working on the farm and learning at the school house their father attended years before, Lou and Oz slowly begin to heal emotionally and grow in unexpected ways. All while waiting for their silent mother to return to them. When a natural gas company comes to town and makes an offer on her land, Louisa refuses to sell. To keep their farm, with the weight of the company and their own greedy neighbors against them, the family must rely on tyhe kindliness of a town lawyer to try the

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House Large Print
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375430911
• ISBN 13: 9780375430916
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 611