Night Ride Home: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Esstman, Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151002886 ISBN 13 : 9780151002887

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997

Synopsis

On the farmland along the Missouri River in the years after WWII, Nora Mahler led a good life boarding horses on her family's ranch. Her son, Simon, and daughter, Clea, inherited from her a love for horses. But when Simon is killed in a riding accident, her marriage and the world she has made for herself are shattered. Her husband, Neal, dismantles her business and sends the horses away, insisting that Nora sell the farm and move the family to Chicago. She refuses. Neal leaves her, taking Clea with him. Soon after they've gone, Ozzie Kline, a horse wrangler who has yearned for Nora since they were teenage lovers, comes to help her rebuild the farm. With Ozzie and Malaak, the mare they train together, Nora catches a glimpse of the happiness she never knew with Neal. As they fix breakfast before going out to the stables or sitting on the porch watching the sung go down, the bond between them grows stronger and Nora's sense of peace deepens. One day watching Ozzie at work in the stables, she wonders about what might have been and asks herself "What would we do if we ever had that chance again?" Night Ride Home is the story of how Nora seeks to claim the life she longs to lead and how she and Ozzie seize their second chance at love and the opportunity to rediscover an extraordinary passion.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

On the farmland along the Missouri River in the years after WWII, Nora Mahler led a good life boarding horses on her family's ranch. Her son, Simon, and daughter, Clea, inherited from her a love for horses. But when Simon is killed in a riding accident, her marriage and the world she has made for herself are shattered. Her husband, Neal, dismantles her business and sends the horses away, insisting that Nora sell the farm and move the family to Chicago. She refuses. Neal leaves her, taking Clea with him. Soon after they've gone, Ozzie Kline, a horse wrangler who has yearned for Nora since they were teenage lovers, comes to help her rebuild the farm. With Ozzie and Malaak, the mare they train together, Nora catches a glimpse of the happiness she never knew with Neal. As they fix breakfast before going out to the stables or sitting on the porch watching the sung go down, the bond between them grows stronger and Nora's sense of peace deepens. One day watching Ozzie at work in the stables, she wonders about what might have been and asks herself "What would we do if we ever had that chance again?" Night Ride Home is the story of how Nora seeks to claim the life she longs to lead and how she and Ozzie seize their second chance at love and the opportunity to rediscover an extraordinary passion.

Biographie de l'auteur

Barbara Esstman lives in Oakton, Virginia. Hallmark Hall of Fame has made into television movies both this book (under the title Secrets) and her second book, Night Ride Home. Esstman has received the Redbook fiction award, nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Library of Virginia Fiction Award, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151002886
• ISBN 13: 9780151002887
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Yeepin GmbH; 492000000000; sunshine12232@outlook.com; ; Alleestr.11; Kaiserslautern; Rheinland-Pfalz; 67655; Allemagne