Ollie Come Free - Couverture souple

Patrick, Timothy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0989354474 ISBN 13 : 9780989354479

Editeur : Country Scribbler, 2021

Synopsis

When a lightning strike shatters Ollie Buckmeyer’s world, it leaves him with a strange new gift—and uncanny drawings that reveal a mystery no one can explain.

Before the accident, Ollie had friends, a quick wit, and a carefree life on one of the last cattle ranches in Southern California. Now that world is gone.

Though he looks like the same old Ollie, his family mourns, his friends drift away, and the girl he cares about has moved on. Even the simplest conversations are now impossible.

But the lightning strike leaves Ollie with something extraordinary.

Suddenly he can see the world with uncanny clarity—remembering every detail and recreating it in drawings of startling precision. His sketches reveal hidden places…and clues to a mystery that has haunted the Buckmeyer ranch for more than a century—a buried fortune generations have searched for—and never found.

As Ollie’s strange new talent begins pointing the way, his family must decide whether to follow the clues—or leave the past buried where it belongs.

Praised by Publishers Weekly as “fast-paced and heart-rending,” Ollie Come Free is a moving and suspenseful novel about family, resilience, and the unexpected gifts hidden within tragedy.

Praise for Ollie Come Free

“When 11-year-old Ollie Buckmeyer is struck by lightning at a Little League game in 1991, what ensues is a series of fast-paced, heart-rending vignettes about a family trying to hold itself together despite complicated circumstances.” — Publishers Weekly

“A rewarding page-turner.” — Foreword Clarion Reviews

“A truly original cast of characters.” — BlueInk Reviews

“Sensitive…engaging…a grounded exploration of recovery, resentment, and redemption.” — BookLife Reviews

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tim Patrick learned at an early age about living on both sides of the tracks. His family scraped to pay the rent but he received his primary education at a private boarding school, the result of smooth talking parents and a generous scholarship. On visiting day Tim watched the parents of his schoolmates arrive in limousines and Lamborghinis. His parents arrived in a utility van that said "Patrick's TV Repair" on the sides. In "Tea Cups & Tiger Claws," his first novel, Patrick continues with this childhood theme as he introduces forbidden mountaintop palaces and the characters who try to sneak into them. It's a family saga that spans three generations and takes you on a wild ride from one side of the tracks to the other. In "Death of Movie Star," the author's second novel, he takes you backstage to meet the types of film stars that the whole world loves and hates-sometimes simultaneously. There are the ambitious divas, the wisecracking sidekicks, and the really frightening ones who just might be playing themselves. In "Ollie Come Free," Patrick unites his fondness for the American family saga with the fascinating phenomenon of acquired savantism, where a person can get bonked on the head and wake up with a new and amazing talent...and the brain damage that always accompanies it. Tim is a graduate of UCLA. He and his wife live in California and are the parents of two grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys aviation, bicycling, and experimenting in the kitchen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Country Scribbler
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0989354474
• ISBN 13: 9780989354479
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Shahid Ujala
• Nombre de pages: 313
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg