Tim Gautreaux
1) The clearing
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In the years before World War I, Byron Aldridge led a charmed life as the charismatic heir apparent to a Pennsylvania timber empire; and to his younger brother, Randolph, he was both guide and idol. But he returned from France a different man and was not home long before those festering memories sent him drifting from one settlement to another, working as a lawman, and then disappearing altogether. Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana...
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Bringing the same light and gentle understanding that he did to the story collection Same Place, Same Things, author Tim Gautreaux tells the tale of Paul and Colette, star-crossed and factious lovers struggling to make it in rural south Louisiana. When Colette, fed up with small town life, perceives yet another indiscretion by the fun-loving Paul, she heads for Los Angeles, with big dreams and Paul in tow. Paul's attempts to draw his beautiful young...
3) The missing
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After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...
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Como si de una crónica se tratara, Los mismos sitios, las mismas cosas narra las vidas comunes de gente normal ante circunstancias y decisiones extraordinarias. Un granjero que se enfrenta al reto de criar a su nieta, un joven que se enamora platónicamente de una voz de la radio o un ingeniero que provoca un accidente de tren de dimensiones colosales.
Son historias llenas de corazón y de humor en las que los actos y sus consecuencias, en el contexto...
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In this collection of stories, Tim Gautreaux chronicles the lives of "ordinary" people who face extraordinary circumstances and decisions: a farmer faced with the prospect of raising his infant granddaughter; a young man who falls in love with a voice on the radio; a train engineer who causes a colossal disaster. In stories filled with heart and humor, event and consequence, the customs and culture of Louisiana come to life in the hands of a writer...
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Del autor de la colección de relatos El mismo sitio, las mismas cosas, llega esta novela impregnada de un extraño y marcado sentido de la tradición y las nuevas oportunidades. Paul Thibodeaux es un atractivo joven casado con Colette, la mujer más hermosa del pequeño pueblo de Luisiana en el que crecieron.
Para Paul, la vida es plena, con una mujer a la que ama, máquinas que reparar, y un bullicioso local al que ir a bailar. Pero Colette...
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Antes de la Gran Guerra, Byron Aldridge llevaba una vida apacible en Pensilvania como heredero de un imperio maderero. Para su hermano pequeño Randolph, Byron ejercía de guía y de ídolo. Pero tras la guerra, el carismático Byron regresa de Francia convertido en un hombre diferente. Atormentado, huye de la familia y, después de pasar por diversos lugares y oficios, se refugia en un pequeño aserradero de la remota Luisiana, en donde trabajará...
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Tim Gautreaux vuelve a sorprendernos con esta nueva serie de relatos publicados originalmente en Atlantic Magazine y recopilados más tarde en el libro Welding with children que da título al primer relato. Todo lo que vale son pequeñas piezas maestras llenas de humor y de ternura que narran las vidas anónimas de los entrañables personajes que componen el tejido social y emocional del entorno rural de Luisiana.
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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith,...