03429cam a2200361 4500 530258694 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781620400616 1620400618 B007Y5IZ06 Amazon 0c36787b-a11a-4176-8992-40d49317c1c0 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1003941 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Weller Lance. Wilderness [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3109kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:Thirty years after the Civil War's Battle of the Wilderness left him maimed, Abel Truman has found his way to the edge of the continent, the rugged, majestic coast of Washington State, where he lives alone in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog. Wilderness is the story of Abel, now an old and ailing man, and his heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of completing but still must undertake to settle matters of the heart that predate even the horrors of the war. As Abel makes his way into the foothills, the violence he endures at the hands of two thugs who are after his dog is crosscut with his memories of the horrors of the war, the friends he lost, and the savagery he took part in and witnessed. And yet, darkness is cut by light, especially in the people who have touched his life-from Jane Dao-Ming Poole, the daughter of murdered Chinese immigrants, to Hypatia, an escaped slave who nursed him back to life, and finally to the unbearable memory of the wife and child he lost as a young man. Haunted by tragedy, loss, and unspeakable brutality, Abel has somehow managed to hold on to his humanity, finding way stations of kindness along his tortured and ultimately redemptive path. In its contrasts of light and dark, wild and tame, brutal and tender, and its attempts to reconcile a horrific war with the great evil it ended, Wilderness tells not only the moving tale of an unforgettable character, but a story about who we are as human beings, a people, and a nation. Lance Weller's immensely impressive debut immediately places him among our most talented writers.. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/0C3/678/7B/Wilderness9781620400616.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0C36787B-A11A-4176-8992-40D49317C1C0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/0C3/678/7B/Wilderness9781620400616.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0C36787B-A11A-4176-8992-40D49317C1C0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/0C3/678/7B/Wilderness9781620400616.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0C36787B-A11A-4176-8992-40D49317C1C0&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)