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Sto caricando le informazioni... Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel (originale 2014; edizione 2014)di James Lee Burke (Autore), Will Patton (Reader)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Basically the story of a man who is raised in poor conditions during the Dust Bowl period in southern US, survives WWII combat, pursues and obtains the American dream after the War making it big in the Oil drilling industry with his Sergeant and friend whom he rescued in combat with the Nazis and a extermination camp woman survivor whom he rescues and marries. Burke brings his heavy philosophical thinking to their lives and how success and envy/greed and getting involved with the wrong powerful people can destroy lives. It was very well written and the audio CD was narrated fantastically, but much of the last half was depressing from the heavy level of powerful bad people destroying the lives of good hard working people. Despite the truth this brings, especially in our current Trump era, it is depressing to think that corrupt powerful people are so in control that they can destroy the lives of good people. It seems like Burke is saying with this novel that fate will triumph. Anyway, quite provocative and different from other books of his that I have read like "In the Moon or Red Ponies" and "Bitterroot". ( ) It's no secret that I am bewitched with James Lee Burke's novels. Although I was in the midst of another book, I had to "play through" and read this first. There was something different about this novel from the others. I can't quite put my finger on it but perhaps it had to do with war scenes. It captivated me. Loved the book. Might be one of the few in my life that I will reread again. The story started out beautifully, continued to hold me through the war story, and even after for a while. Then Mr. James Lee Burke started losing me. I could not understand why Weldon was so forgiving of evil , even as he and his wife were being destroyed. Everything started feeling like a soap opera , lots of drama between shallow characters. Grandfather and Rosita were the only ones who made any sense, the only ones who could fight without compromise. The end was so disappointing. Wayfaring Stranger would have made a great graphic novel. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends as Weldon puts a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland and his sergeant, Hershel Pine, escape certain death in the Battle of the Bulge and encounter a beautiful young woman named Rosita Lowenstein hiding in a deserted extermination camp. Eventually, Weldon and Rosita fall in love and marry and, with Hershel, return to Texas to seek their fortunes. There, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-Semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all" -- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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