Krueger William Kent
Krueger William Kent - Ordinary Grace A Novel - Paperback
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Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller Winner OF THE 2014 Edgar Award FOR BEST Novel Winner OF THE 2014 Dilys Award A School Library Journal BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger a brilliant new novel about a young man a small town and murder in the summer of 1961. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. New Bremen Minnesota 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season ice - cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new young president. But for thirteen - year - old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate artistic mother; Juilliard - bound older sister; and wise - beyond - his - years kid brother he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets lies adultery and betrayal suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
Title: Ordinary Grace A Novel
Author(s): Krueger William Kent
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781451645859
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2014
Category: Fiction: Special Features
Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller Winner OF THE 2014 Edgar Award FOR BEST Novel Winner OF THE 2014 Dilys Award A School Library Journal BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger a brilliant new novel about a young man a small town and murder in the summer of 1961. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. New Bremen Minnesota 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season ice - cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson's Drugstore and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new young president. But for thirteen - year - old Frank Drum it was a grim summer in which death visited frequently and assumed many forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder. Frank begins the season preoccupied with the concerns of any teenage boy but when tragedy unexpectedly strikes his family which includes his Methodist minister father; his passionate artistic mother; Juilliard - bound older sister; and wise - beyond - his - years kid brother he finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets lies adultery and betrayal suddenly called upon to demonstrate a maturity and gumption beyond his years. Told from Frank's perspective forty years after that fateful summer Ordinary Grace is a brilliantly moving account of a boy standing at the door of his young manhood trying to understand a world that seems to be falling apart around him. It is an unforgettable novel about discovering the terrible price of wisdom and the enduring grace of God.
Title: Ordinary Grace A Novel
Author(s): Krueger William Kent
Publisher: Atria Books
Barcode: 9781451645859
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 3/4/2014
Category: Fiction: Special Features
