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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. February 1983. Elias Thorne, a young architectural historian from the University of Michigan, arrives at the VanDeusen Fortress on Hensell Road in Rose Township, Michigan - a mid-nineteenth-century Gothic Revival farmhouse that has just cleared foreclosure and is days away from its first sa…le outside the family in a hundred and thirty years. His assignment is forensic: document the structure before the new owners arrive. He has seven days.What he finds is a dossier. A kitchen floor worn to an eight-and-three-quarter-inch path by decades of the same body moving through the same morning labor. A mantel clock stopped at October 12 - a date, not a time - its mechanism destroyed, its hands held where they were placed in 1958. A piano with eleven dead hammers, its middle register silenced. A sealed artesian well. A dead chimney flue hiding an oilcloth bundle, a land patent, and ten photographs that have not been opened since 1978.Behind these facts is Donald VanDeusen, who lived alone in the house for twenty years after his wife died, after his brother left for the city, after he signed an oil lease he came to regard as a sin. The brine blowout ruined the well. He sealed it with copper brazing and spent thirteen years hauling water from the creek. He refused every offer, every development proposal, every accommodation that would have made staying easier. Then a commune moved in, the bank foreclosed, and Donald was sent to Florida. He left nothing in writing. He left everything in the house.Guided by Samuel Walker - a land surveyor whose grandfather first drove iron pins into this section in 1923 - Elias reconstructs Donald's forty-year reckoning with the land: the penance, the refusals, the artifacts carefully preserved inside the house's frame. A Story Box of heirlooms recovered from a Battle Alley antique dealer. A fossilized colonial coral last seen by a child in 1905. A manuscript hidden in a piano, written by Donald's oldest friend, that turns out to be the record the house has been waiting to deliver.*The Recluse* operates in the tradition of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley: land as moral medium, matter as the archive that outlasts documents. The novel is built as a genuine dossier - tactile, acoustic, architectural - and its deepest achievement is making each recovered object feel as though it has undergone a long moral apprenticeship before Elias finds it. A hinge's G-sharp cry, wet-glass rings pressed into a piano lid, a brass safety pin holding an uncashed check to a summer kitchen wall: nothing here is arranged for atmosphere. Everything is evidence of how a person chose to live.Structured as a seven-day investigation that expands into four decades of stewardship, *The Recluse* follows the Fortress through the hands of the Bowens, the Noveks, and finally Sarah and Luke, who strip back ruinous renovations and find the house has survived not because it was protected but because the damage accumulated as overburden above what it hid. The novel's central argument - that endurance is not passivity but a chosen, costly form of love - is made not through statement but through floors, brick, plaster, and the slow work of restoration.The second volume of *The Rose Covenant*, an eight-volume reverse-chronology series set in Rose Township and Holly, Michigan, *The Recluse* stands fully on its own while establishing the method of the larger sequence: not plot extension, but buried continuity. Later volumes exist inside earlier objects. The Ben East manuscript points toward the next book; an architectural heirloom points toward the one after that. The connections feel like inheritance, not franchise.For readers of Kent Haruf, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry - fiction of place that takes seriously what a landscape asks of the pe Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Telltale Bay, 2026
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. February 1983. Elias Thorne, a young architectural historian from the University of Michigan, arrives at the VanDeusen Fortress on Hensell Road in Rose Township, Michigan - a mid-nineteenth-century Gothic Revival farmhouse that has just cleared foreclosure and is days away from its first sa…le outside the family in a hundred and thirty years. His assignment is forensic: document the structure before the new owners arrive. He has seven days.What he finds is a dossier. A kitchen floor worn to an eight-and-three-quarter-inch path by decades of the same body moving through the same morning labor. A mantel clock stopped at October 12 - a date, not a time - its mechanism destroyed, its hands held where they were placed in 1958. A piano with eleven dead hammers, its middle register silenced. A sealed artesian well. A dead chimney flue hiding an oilcloth bundle, a land patent, and ten photographs that have not been opened since 1978.Behind these facts is Donald VanDeusen, who lived alone in the house for twenty years after his wife died, after his brother left for the city, after he signed an oil lease he came to regard as a sin. The brine blowout ruined the well. He sealed it with copper brazing and spent thirteen years hauling water from the creek. He refused every offer, every development proposal, every accommodation that would have made staying easier. Then a commune moved in, the bank foreclosed, and Donald was sent to Florida. He left nothing in writing. He left everything in the house.Guided by Samuel Walker - a land surveyor whose grandfather first drove iron pins into this section in 1923 - Elias reconstructs Donald's forty-year reckoning with the land: the penance, the refusals, the artifacts carefully preserved inside the house's frame. A Story Box of heirlooms recovered from a Battle Alley antique dealer. A fossilized colonial coral last seen by a child in 1905. A manuscript hidden in a piano, written by Donald's oldest friend, that turns out to be the record the house has been waiting to deliver.*The Recluse* operates in the tradition of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley: land as moral medium, matter as the archive that outlasts documents. The novel is built as a genuine dossier - tactile, acoustic, architectural - and its deepest achievement is making each recovered object feel as though it has undergone a long moral apprenticeship before Elias finds it. A hinge's G-sharp cry, wet-glass rings pressed into a piano lid, a brass safety pin holding an uncashed check to a summer kitchen wall: nothing here is arranged for atmosphere. Everything is evidence of how a person chose to live.Structured as a seven-day investigation that expands into four decades of stewardship, *The Recluse* follows the Fortress through the hands of the Bowens, the Noveks, and finally Sarah and Luke, who strip back ruinous renovations and find the house has survived not because it was protected but because the damage accumulated as overburden above what it hid. The novel's central argument - that endurance is not passivity but a chosen, costly form of love - is made not through statement but through floors, brick, plaster, and the slow work of restoration.The second volume of *The Rose Covenant*, an eight-volume reverse-chronology series set in Rose Township and Holly, Michigan, *The Recluse* stands fully on its own while establishing the method of the larger sequence: not plot extension, but buried continuity. Later volumes exist inside earlier objects. The Ben East manuscript points toward the next book; an architectural heirloom points toward the one after that. The connections feel like inheritance, not franchise.For readers of Kent Haruf, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry - fiction of place that takes seriously what a landscape a Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the "gig economy" has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-o…ld freelance writer paralyzed by the "Millennial Drift." Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the "Iron Pin" buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the "Fen"-to confront who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is "The Solitary," a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic "Ghost Subdivision" stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong co!ee, this novella-in-verse is a "Rust Belt Pastoral" that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the "Iron Pin" that holds the world together. A "Rust Belt Pastoral" retelling of Wordsworth. Three men debate hope versus despair in modern Michigan. Includes a full Reader's Companion, field guide, and discussion questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Editore: Telltale Bay, 2026
Serie: The Rose Covenant, Libro 2. Libro 2 - The Rose Covenant
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. February 1983. Elias Thorne, a young architectural historian from the University of Michigan, arrives at the VanDeusen Fortress on Hensell Road in Rose Township, Michigan - a mid-nineteenth-century Gothic Revival farmhouse that has just cleared foreclosure and is days away from its first sa…le outside the family in a hundred and thirty years. His assignment is forensic: document the structure before the new owners arrive. He has seven days.What he finds is a dossier. A kitchen floor worn to an eight-and-three-quarter-inch path by decades of the same body moving through the same morning labor. A mantel clock stopped at October 12 - a date, not a time - its mechanism destroyed, its hands held where they were placed in 1958. A piano with eleven dead hammers, its middle register silenced. A sealed artesian well. A dead chimney flue hiding an oilcloth bundle, a land patent, and ten photographs that have not been opened since 1978.Behind these facts is Donald VanDeusen, who lived alone in the house for twenty years after his wife died, after his brother left for the city, after he signed an oil lease he came to regard as a sin. The brine blowout ruined the well. He sealed it with copper brazing and spent thirteen years hauling water from the creek. He refused every offer, every development proposal, every accommodation that would have made staying easier. Then a commune moved in, the bank foreclosed, and Donald was sent to Florida. He left nothing in writing. He left everything in the house.Guided by Samuel Walker - a land surveyor whose grandfather first drove iron pins into this section in 1923 - Elias reconstructs Donald's forty-year reckoning with the land: the penance, the refusals, the artifacts carefully preserved inside the house's frame. A Story Box of heirlooms recovered from a Battle Alley antique dealer. A fossilized colonial coral last seen by a child in 1905. A manuscript hidden in a piano, written by Donald's oldest friend, that turns out to be the record the house has been waiting to deliver.*The Recluse* operates in the tradition of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley: land as moral medium, matter as the archive that outlasts documents. The novel is built as a genuine dossier - tactile, acoustic, architectural - and its deepest achievement is making each recovered object feel as though it has undergone a long moral apprenticeship before Elias finds it. A hinge's G-sharp cry, wet-glass rings pressed into a piano lid, a brass safety pin holding an uncashed check to a summer kitchen wall: nothing here is arranged for atmosphere. Everything is evidence of how a person chose to live.Structured as a seven-day investigation that expands into four decades of stewardship, *The Recluse* follows the Fortress through the hands of the Bowens, the Noveks, and finally Sarah and Luke, who strip back ruinous renovations and find the house has survived not because it was protected but because the damage accumulated as overburden above what it hid. The novel's central argument - that endurance is not passivity but a chosen, costly form of love - is made not through statement but through floors, brick, plaster, and the slow work of restoration.The second volume of *The Rose Covenant*, an eight-volume reverse-chronology series set in Rose Township and Holly, Michigan, *The Recluse* stands fully on its own while establishing the method of the larger sequence: not plot extension, but buried continuity. Later volumes exist inside earlier objects. The Ben East manuscript points toward the next book; an architectural heirloom points toward the one after that. The connections feel like inheritance, not franchise.For readers of Kent Haruf, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry - fiction of place that takes seriously what a landscape a Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the 'gig economy' has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-old fre…elance writer paralyzed by the 'Millennial Drift.' Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the 'Iron Pin' buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the 'Fen'-to confront the one man who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is 'The Solitary,' a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take you.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic 'Ghost Subdivision' stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong coffee, this novella-in-verse is a 'Rust Belt Pastoral' that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the 'Iron Pin' that holds the world together.
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the "gig economy" has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-o…ld freelance writer paralyzed by the "Millennial Drift." Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the "Iron Pin" buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the "Fen"-to confront the one man who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is "The Solitary," a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take you.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic "Ghost Subdivision" stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong coffee, this novella-in-verse is a "Rust Belt Pastoral" that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the "Iron Pin" that holds the world together. A "Rust Belt Pastoral" retelling of Wordsworth. Three men debate hope versus despair in modern Michigan. Includes a full Reader's Companion, field guide, and discussion questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the "gig economy" has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-o…ld freelance writer paralyzed by the "Millennial Drift." Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the "Iron Pin" buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the "Fen"-to confront who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is "The Solitary," a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic "Ghost Subdivision" stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong co!ee, this novella-in-verse is a "Rust Belt Pastoral" that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the "Iron Pin" that holds the world together. A "Rust Belt Pastoral" retelling of Wordsworth. Three men debate hope versus despair in modern Michigan. Includes a full Reader's Companion, field guide, and discussion questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the "gig economy" has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-o…ld freelance writer paralyzed by the "Millennial Drift." Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the "Iron Pin" buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the "Fen"-to confront who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is "The Solitary," a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic "Ghost Subdivision" stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong co!ee, this novella-in-verse is a "Rust Belt Pastoral" that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the "Iron Pin" that holds the world together. A "Rust Belt Pastoral" retelling of Wordsworth. Three men debate hope versus despair in modern Michigan. Includes a full Reader's Companion, field guide, and discussion questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the "gig economy" has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid ground beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-o…ld freelance writer paralyzed by the "Millennial Drift." Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the "Iron Pin" buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the "Fen"-to confront the one man who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is "The Solitary," a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take you.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic "Ghost Subdivision" stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong coffee, this novella-in-verse is a "Rust Belt Pastoral" that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the "Iron Pin" that holds the world together. A "Rust Belt Pastoral" retelling of Wordsworth. Three men debate hope versus despair in modern Michigan. Includes a full Reader's Companion, field guide, and discussion questions. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - HOPE IS NOT AN EMOTION. IT IS A DISCIPLINE.In the fading light of the American Rust Belt, where foreclosure signs outnumber the trees and the 'gig economy' has left a generation adrift, three men set out on a walk to find the solid grou…nd beneath their feet.Jim Miller is a thirty-two-year-old freelance writer paralyzed by the 'Millennial Drift.' Over-educated, under-employed, and anxious, he watches the world through the cracked screen of his phone, waiting for a signal that never comes. But when he meets Samuel Walker, a retired Land Surveyor who reads the scripture of the earth through his grandfather's brass transit, Jim is pulled into a journey that will change his life.Samuel believes in the Grid. He believes that even when the vinyl siding rots and the banks fold, the 'Iron Pin' buried deep in the earth holds true. But to prove it, he must take Jim into the dark heart of Rose Township-into the 'Fen'-to confront who has given up on everything.Dr. Elias Thorne was once a respected Professor of Political Science. Now, he is 'The Solitary,' a grieving nihilist living in a sinking shack, arguing that the social contract is void and the only logical response to a broken world is to let the swamp take.What follows is a modern epic of debate and discovery.From the tragic 'Ghost Subdivision' stalled by the 2008 crash, to the moss-covered stones of Lakeside Cemetery, and finally to the warm, chaotic kitchen of a local farmhouse, these three men argue for the soul of the community. They confront the opioid crisis, the polarization of politics, and the quiet heroism of the working class.This is a story about the difference between a ruin and a wreck. A ruin has dignity; a wreck just rots.Inspired by William Wordsworth's 1814 masterpiece, The Excursion: A Modern American Retelling transposes the ghosts of the nineteenth century into the anxieties of the twenty-first. It abandons the rocky fells of England for the gravel roads of Michigan, trading shepherds for surveyors and peddlers for gig workers.You do not need to know Wordsworth to understand this story. You only need to know what it feels like to worry that the world is slipping away.Rich with the scent of wet earth, cheap rye, and strong co!ee, this novella-in-verse is a 'Rust Belt Pastoral' that refuses to look away from the decay, yet insists that the root is deeper than the rust. It is a book for anyone who is tired of drifting and looking for an anchor.Discover the 'Iron Pin' that holds the world together.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. The Excursion | Peter James Stouffer | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Telltale Bay | EAN 9798994806432 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Telltale Bay, 2026
Serie: The Rose Covenant, Libro 2. Libro 2 - The Rose Covenant
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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. THE RECLUSE | The Siege of the Fortress | Peter James Stouffer | Taschenbuch | The Rose Covenenat | Englisch | 2026 | Telltale Bay | EAN 9798994806449 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.
