Stormy Weather: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Jiles, Paulette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0060537329 ISBN 13 : 9780060537326

Editeur : William Morrow, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Jiles Paulette

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From Paulette Jiles, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Enemy Women, comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time—and of a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day

Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks; that is, when he's not spending his meager earnings at gambling joints, race tracks, and dance halls. And in every small town in which the windblown family settles, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home.

But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm.

It is Jeanine, proud and stubborn, who single-mindedly devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet or pay the back taxes they owe on their land. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine, the fatherless "daddy's girl," must decide if she will gamble it all . . . on love.

Revue de presse :

“Jiles’s follow-up to her highly praised debut, Enemy Women, [is] a deeply satisfying novel with wide appeal.” (Library Journal (starred review))

“Jiles’s eloquent, engaging novel celebrates four strong women toughing out the Great Depression . . . [a] gritty saga.” (Publishers Weekly)

“[A] stirring story . . . of self and home in language as spare and stark as the Texas landscape.” (Booklist)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060537329
• ISBN 13: 9780060537326
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352