Gap Creek: The Story of a Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
by:
Robert Morgan (author)
Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is...
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Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743225359 (074322535X)
Publish date: August 1st 2001
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
4 stars. 1st in a series, really looking forward to reading the rest. Based on the lives of the authors ancestors; truth is stranger than fiction.
This book was just ok....a very slow read, but the plot was missing...it basically gave the life of a woman in rural america at the turn of the century
I wanted to like this book a lot because it's written by a local author and is set in this general area, and I tend to appreciate books like that on a different level than books set in an unfamiliar place. However, there were a few things that threw me off.First, I realize that many authors write re...