The Lighthouse Road: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609530845 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Fish House Envy" according to Jennifer Spiegel. I feel like gushing, letting the clichés unleash in a flood of unholy praise. Using "unleash" like that? Cliché?This was a great book. I loved it. First, the setting is novel. As a city girl who (tragically, inevitably) lives in the desert, I foun. Ian Baines said Lighthouse Road. This is my second book from this author. I really like the way that he melds two story lines, his richness of detail of life on the Minnesota frontier in the early twentieth century and his expertise about winter, storms, Lake Superior and the hardy people who . Good read. Amazon Customer I loved the strength of character and oddities that shape personalities of a small back woods town. The shaping of lives through gestures of kindness, pervertedness, and the simple ignorance of the times.
But their pasts travel with them, threatening to capsize even their fragile hope. In this triumphant new novel, Peter Geye has crafted another deeply moving tale of a misbegotten family shaped by the rough landscape in which they live--often at the mercy of wildlife and weather--and by the rough edges of their own breaking hearts.. Against the wilds of sea and wood, a young immigrant woman settles into life outside Duluth in the 1890s, still shocked at finding herself alone in a new country, abandoned and adrift; in the early 1920s, her orphan son, now grown, falls in love with the one woman he shouldn’t and uses his best skills to build them their own small ark to escape
A newly arrived Norwegian immigrant discovers her family has fallen apart, forcing her to find her own way. From Booklist *Starred Review* Writing with the same austere beauty as the wilderness surrounding the frontier town of Gunflint, Minnesota, Geye powerfully portrays a family’s struggles. --Bridget Thoreson . Handled less skillfully, Geye’s emphasis on one primary trait in his characters—their intense longing for somewhere to belong and, at the same time, somewhere to be free—might come off as one-dimensional, but here the