The Winter People - Softcover

Ehle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060809396 ISBN 13: 9780060809393

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1989

Synopsis

Widower Wayland Jackson and his daughter chance on a small North Carolina mountain village and on Collie Wright and her baby, beginning an idyllic life that ends with the sudden reappearance of Collie's violent ex-lover

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Review:

“A lovely novel . . . about families, about the fragile yet durable ties that we establish among ourselves . . . Ehle’s people, all of them, are splendid. Collie, her emotions seesawing as she tries with mounting frustration to keep her life on an even keel, is a person of striking good humor and endearing independence of mind. Wayland, gentle and decent and wry, has a strength that is as quiet as the novel’s. Each of Collie’s three brothers emerges, quickly yet subtly, as a clearly definable individual and, at the same time, a member of a family that is itself a clearly definable entity . . . his descriptive prose is quite marvelous . . . a very substantial piece of work, thoroughly satisfying in every important respect.” —Washington Post

“A spare, funny, harrowing, moving novel drawn with sure, swift strokes.” —Newsweek

“A fine book, rich and haunting and a source of great, deep pleasure.” —Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060809396
• ISBN 13: 9780060809393
• Binding: Paperback