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At the edge of the orchard / Tracy Chevalier.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wheeler Publishing Large Print HardcoverPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: Large Print editionDescription: 419 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781410485403 (large print : hardback)
  • 1410485404 (large print : hardcover)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run for ever.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction Chevalie Tracy Available 33111008405371
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThis fierce, beautifully crafted story is about James and Sadie Goodenough, who with their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land on the American frontier. At the Edge of the Orchard is Tracy Chevalier's most graceful and richly imagined work yet.

James Goodenough, whose family had originally settled in Connecticut from England brings his family to Ohio to carve out a new life for them in the Black Swamp in 1838. As swamp fever gradually picks off their children and they wrestle daily with survival. This course will see their family engulfed in tragedy and fifteen years later we pick up with their youngest son, Robert who has been running west since the trying to escape his memories of what happened, taking solace in a very different kind of tree--the redwoods and sequoias of California. But Robert's past catches up with him and he's forced to confront what he's running from and work out for himself that you can't run for ever.

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