Bewildered - Couverture rigide

Foertmeyer, C H

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0595671128 ISBN 13 : 9780595671120

Editeur : iUniverse, 2005

Synopsis

In a remote mountain area of Tennessee, there is a small, virtually unknown town, named Jessup. The inhabitants of this town, the Jessupites, are all descendants of the original Puralist religious movement that settled Jessup in the early 1800's; all save one. Doctor John Roberts has only been a member of the community for the past five years, having moved to Jessup upon the occasion of his grandmother's death. John's grandmother had at one time been a Jessupite but had left the community in disenchantment with the Puralist way of life. What Abigail Wilson Roberts left behind at her demise was a diary that told all about Jessup and the Puralists, and something else that immediately caught John's attention. What he read, in the diary, motivated his move to his grandmother's former home in the mountains of Tennessee. Now that John Roberts had moved into Jessup, the Puralists had a real doctor for the first time in their existence, and along with him came problems the Jessupites never imagined they would ever face. What John Roberts brought with him would test their moral convictions, and, eventually, threaten their very existence.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the beginning Charlie McVee wanted nothing more from life than to raise a family in his suburban Cincinnati home, write his novels, and find time to go hiking with his wife, Annie. Fifteen years into his marriage he had traded off the dream of raising a family for more time writing and hiking-but not by choice. In their final attempt at having a child and after three miscarriages, Annie had nearly died in childbirth and the child to be had been stillborn. That had been it for Charlie. He would never put Annie in jeopardy again. He'd rather never have a son than live without Annie. Charlie's writing and their hiking trips consumed their lives from that day forward. So, Charlie reasoned, how better to celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary than making the hike of a lifetime? Two hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail awaited them down in Tennessee, beckoning them come and see it firsthand. What they found in a remote area of the mountains, off the beaten track, was a small town virtually unknown to the outside world. There was no road into or out of Jessup save a rutted wagon trace used solely by the Jessupites to bring their hinnies and mules to trade in Chester, the nearest civilization some twenty miles away. As Charlie would find out, Puralists inhabited Jessup, a religious group living out their beliefs in their utopian world on their remote, oak forested mountain. But years before Charlie and Annie had arrived there the outside world had already come, bringing its greed and tainted values to the Jessupites. Thanks to one man's arrival in Jessup five years prior, Charlie and Annie would not find the comfort of a friendly little religious community, but rather, the beginning of a hideous nightmare.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595671128
• ISBN 13: 9780595671120
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible