![]() Just when you think you know where the story is headed, she reveals another thread. “In A River of Crows, Shanessa Gluhm spins a complex web of murder and family revelation that propels the reader forward at a breakneck pace. What she discovers will shock her small community and turn her family upside down.Ī River of Crows is a tale of family secrets, deception, and revenge perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Jennifer Hillier. When the body of another boy is found, Sloan begins to question what really happened to her brother all those years ago. There, she is shocked to hear a crow muttering the same syllable over and over: Ridge, Ridge, Ridge. Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago: Crow’s Nest Creek. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she’s forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility. Now, twenty years later, Sloan’s life is unraveling. Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home. ![]() Most of all, he will be impressed by its profound knowledge, of our cultural heritage, and stirred by its vital interpretations He will be amused by the wicked wit that illumines the vast panorama, and intrigued by the challenge it offers his own learning. And in the discovering, the literate reader will have a wonderful time. Clarence Shandon came to the Commonwealth, exchanging his everyday name and Chicago-bound life for that of a traveler beyond time what great ones of old legend and modern story he encountered, and to what purpose what loves he knew and what fights he fought what trials befell him in the Pit, and what truth he discovered when at last he won to the Hippocrene Spring-these are matters of such crowding variety and implicit significance as the reader must discover for himself. Always it is fresh and bold in concept, superb in its execution. In content, it is something between a many-peopled, incident-studded story of high emprise, and a morality for our time. In form, it is sheer headlong narrative, with occasional clangorous verses woven into its fabric. In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. Summary SILVERLOCK is one of the all-time great fantasy classics. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Silverlock John Myers Myers We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.
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