by Wiley Cash
I do not know if the print book would come across as magnificently as the audio book, but the readers, Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver, and Nick Sullivan, perfectly captured the spirit of the characters they portrayed. They literally became Adelaide Lyle, Jess Hall and Clem Barefield. Through their marve...
Inhalt: In einer kleinen Kirche in der amerikanischen Provinz stirbt ein stummer Junge, bei einer Heilung. Doch die Hintergründe bleiben geheimnisvoll. Niemand der dabei war, will sich zum Tod des Jungen äußern. Der mysteriöse Prediger Chambliss hat seine Schäfchen im Griff.Doch mit einem Zeugen, de...
I never really connected to this story on a visceral level. Okay, maybe just a smudge when there was snake handling. But I wanted, needed more from the characters. Chambliss might have been a bad guy but he wasn't that bad. I wanted more of a battle between good and evil, but that wasn't this story....
Cash studied with [a:Ernest Gaines|3533|Ernest J. Gaines|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1255909167p2/3533.jpg], and I have to say though they write of two different places and people, as a reader I can see Gaines' influence and style and how that has shaped Cash's work. It's almost l...
Throughout history, “home” has been considered the one idealized safe haven in a dangerous world. It is supposed to be the one place that allows one to heal one’s wounds – mental, spiritual, and physical – and it is the one place filled with people who are supposed to provide unconditional love. Yet...
The title of the book is taken from Thomas Wolfe's You Can’t Go Home Again, referring to death as how we “find a land more kind than home, more large than earth,” so you have to expect some unpleasantness before we come to the end.Evil arrives in garish togs. Carson Chambliss is a reverend of suspe...
1-27-12 SA
1-27-12 SA
Set in an isolated Appalachian town where the characters have little contact with the outside world and most folks have grown up together, this is a quiet story of damage wrought by things left unsaid and the baggage that people carry for one generation to the next. I loved the way the characters de...
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash is a heartbreaking and beautifully written story about religion, family and a community who fail to protect a child.I must admit the first thing that drew me to this book was its cover, it is beautiful and I am a sucker for a pretty picture.But this book is ...
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