A Dry Spell

Moloney, Susie

ISBN 10 : 0553479091 ISBN 13 : 9780553479096

Editeur : Bantam Audio, 1997

Synopsis

Book by Susie Moloney

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When Tom closed his eyes, he emptied his mind of Karen, of the trees, of Goodlands, of the incredible dryness here that he couldn't explain.  He reached up, farther and farther, and found the rain.  He tried again, as he had many time that day, to pull it toward him.  When he grabbed at it, he could not hold on.  And he could tug it a little, as though his door to the sky was all but closed.  But he couldn't bring it in.

He strained against the sky, teeth clenched, lips pulled back in a grimace.  The muscles of his face and body stiffened with the exertion.  He found a neat little pocket of rain to the west of them.  He settled on it.  He worked the sky through his little doorway.

The heat in the meadow was impossible.  Full, sultry.  Karen was still looking into Tom's face, had watched it change, settle, relax, when she heard the first sound.  A trickle as if from a stream.  Something familiar filled her hand.  It broke through the heat in her body and chilled the flesh of her palm--a little pool of cool, fresh water.  It trickled down through the tiny spaces between her fingers, down to her elbow.  She could feel it.  See it.  Smell it.
RAIN.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Goodlands, North Dakota, has been suffering a massive drought for the past four years. Farms are in foreclosure, people's livelihoods are on the wane, and the town's beleaguered mortgage lender, Karen Grange, is beginning to think she should pack up and go back to Minneapolis.

Then Tom Keatley arrives. He calls himself a rainmaker. Karen thinks he's a drifter. And the townsfolk--well, the townsfolk aren't about to trust the tall, mysterious stranger who wanders their streets, visits their dying farms, and keeps his thoughts to himself. They don't need an out-of-towner surveying their land, hands in pockets, eyes looking at the sky. What they need is rain.

What happens to Goodlands when Tom Keatley arrives is as mysterious as the elements. And what he unleashes is much more profound than a storm. There is a mystery behind this terrible drought, and a message, and its unrelenting fierceness can destroy the town of Goodlands. Tom knows this. But Karen does not. Not yet.

Tom and Karen's love affair, elemental and profound, is intertwined with the story of a town gripped by fear, and paralyzed by the sickness at its core. Suspenseful and gripping from the first page, A Dry Spell is a mesmerizing read.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Audio
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553479091
• ISBN 13: 9780553479096
• Reliure: Cassette