- Orchards, Fruit growers, Families, Pregnant teenagers
"At the turn of the twentieth century in the Pacific Northwest, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns ..." --P. [4] of cover.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Amanda Coplin
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781410453600
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