Moonshiner's Son - Brossura

Reeder, Carolyn

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0689855508 ISBN 13: 9780689855504

Casa editrice: Aladdin, 2003

Riassunto

As he works with his father making moonshine in the remote hills of Virginia during Prohibition, twelve-year-old Tom Higgins learns about hard work and honesty as he is forced to question his own notions of morality. Reprint.

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Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more than to please this rough, distant man. Then a preacher comes to the wilds of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains to rid Bad Camp Hollow of the "evils of liquor." This is when Tom and his father begin their campaign to match wits with the preacher and try to outsmart the law officers he calls in. Tom's father is eloquent in defense of a way of life long and respectfully lived by the Higgins family. But the preacher and his pretty daughter make a powerful case against it. And when drink causes a tragedy in the community, Tom Higgins is torn....

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• Editore: Aladdin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0689855508
• ISBN 13: 9780689855504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206