David Munk

Broschiertes Buch

Donner-Reed - Redemption

Beschreibung

Albert is a fourteen-year-old orphan and narrator of the story. His parents died when he was an infant, but his aunt and uncle do their best to raise him on the edge of the frontier in 1840's Missouri. Aunt Carrie dies suddenly along with the baby she is birthing. It was to be their first-born child. Albert is left to face a resentful Uncle Joe who turns to the bottle as a means of coping with his loss. It seems Albert will forever remain stuck in the muddy streets and dilapidated structures of Independence, doomed to become another insignificant local watching thousands of more fortunate families move west, having subscribed to the ideology of Manifest Destiny. But then he meets Levinah Murphy by chance while leaving the Mercantile. At first he believes he is being confronted by the mother of Virgina Reed, the young Irish beauty he has been following through town, placing him at the Mercantile in the first place. She happens to be traveling to California with her family, accompanied by the Donner family, both leaving behind their farms in Illinois for the prospect of a better life with countless opportunities.

Autor

I am a high school counselor and coach, and this has been my career for the past twenty-two years. I am in my thirty-first year of marriage and have three children. Our youngest was recently married so my wife and I are now empty nesters-luckily we aren't complete strangers. Needless to say, the transition has been interesting-interesting is a good thing in this context in case you were wondering. Writing is therapy for me-not the editing. My mood at any given minute might inspire my writing. I am inspired by the world around me, specifically how simple everyday events influence human relationships. I attempt to illustrate our tendency to complicate that which was never intended to be complex. My love for reading started as a young man. I was inspired by the likes of S.E. Hinton and Wilson Rawls. Louis L'Amour also had an impact on me as well as Ralph Moody. All of these authors were masters at portraying human emotion and making the page come alive. I remember reading Little Britches as a youth, as seen through the eyes of Moody when he was but a young boy. I remember the theme of keeping an intact character amidst the injustices brought on by a far from perfect society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Outlaws Publishing LLC
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9798230976370
• Artikelnr.: 73441060