The Shadow of the Hawk: Hello, Willow Tree - Couverture souple

Mangham, Mack

 
9780595254262: The Shadow of the Hawk: Hello, Willow Tree
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595254268 ISBN 13 : 9780595254262
Editeur : iUniverse, 2002

Synopsis

A vortex of evil, passion, suspense and beautiful writing.Spanning three generations, four continents and two world wars, The Shadow of the Hawk brings together Kathleen and Hawk, each from different generations, backgrounds and outlooks. Through his naiveté and her patience and wisdom, they meet, not in his world, not in hers, but in a place almost mystical, unreal.Around them revolve: Cope the moonshiner, evil incarnate; Toad, nobility personified; Miss Jesse, on the edge of madness; Jonathan and Judilon, Kathleen's children, both older than their mother's lover; Adam and Ruth, a frightened black couple stranded in an isolated white settlement in 1949; Robert and Raven Tallchief, the Indians who watch with lust which moves into unfortunate action; and 7, a sturdy man who tries to stop madness in two different worlds at one time.In a pond on the mountain above them floats a body stabbed many times, and someone unknown is making cyanide that will eventually take its toll.Faustine and Logan form the strangest love affair in all recorded literature, bringing about the death of a hidden community.Every page drives you relentlessly onward with another question that must be answered.This book is unstoppable.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A vortex of evil, passion, suspense and beautiful writing.Spanning three generations, four continents and two world wars, The Shadow of the Hawk brings together Kathleen and Hawk, each from different generations, backgrounds and outlooks. Through his naiveté and her patience and wisdom, they meet, not in his world, not in hers, but in a place almost mystical, unreal.Around them revolve: Cope the moonshiner, evil incarnate; Toad, nobility personified; Miss Jesse, on the edge of madness; Jonathan and Judilon, Kathleen's children, both older than their mother's lover; Adam and Ruth, a frightened black couple stranded in an isolated white settlement in 1949; Robert and Raven Tallchief, the Indians who watch with lust which moves into unfortunate action; and 7, a sturdy man who tries to stop madness in two different worlds at one time.In a pond on the mountain above them floats a body stabbed many times, and someone unknown is making cyanide that will eventually take its toll.Faustine and Logan form the strangest love affair in all recorded literature, bringing about the death of a hidden community.Every page drives you relentlessly onward with another question that must be answered.This book is unstoppable.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mangham divides his time between the NC mountains and the Florida Panhandle. The Shadow of the Hawk contended for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. Things Left Undone has been placed in contention for the 2003 Pulitzer. He attended FSU and Goddard, and taught for Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City FL.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595254268
ISBN 13 
9780595254262
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0759601062 ISBN 13 :  9780759601062
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2000
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