A Land More Kind Than Home
'We never should've gone up there...' One Sunday, nine-years-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past. "A...
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'We never should've gone up there...' One Sunday, nine-years-old Jess Hall watches in horror as his autistic brother is smothered during a healing service in the mountains of North Carolina. The unimaginable violence that follows must be untangled by a local sheriff with his own tragic past. "A Land More Kind Than Home" is a spellbinding, heartbreaking story about cruelty and innocence, and the failure of religion and family to protect a child. It is a novel thick with stories and characters connected by faith, infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and unforgettable.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857520708 (0857520709)
Publish date: April 1st 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Family,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Southern
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...
Fürchtet euch ist ein Buch von Wiley Cash. Es ist am 22. April 2013 im Fischer Verlag als Taschenbuch erschienen. Das Buch umfasst 352 Seiten. Das englische Original A Land More Kind Than Home erschien am 29. März 2012 bei Doubleday.InhaltMitten in einem kleinen Ort in den Bergen von North Carolina ...
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...
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....
12 years ago
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