The Everlasting Hills
by Irene Hunt
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When a bitter mountain man cannot accept his twelve-year-old son's mental retardation, the boy wanders into the wilderness and finds in a stranger the father he has never had.Tags
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Jeremy is "slow" due to an accident during his birth, and he endures teasing because of it. But his own father's contempt for his only remaining son turns Jeremy's fear into hate as he becomes a young man.
This is a superb read, by an author whose books I love. There is nothing contrived about her characters or the situations, nothing cheap, forced, or manipulative about her stories. She writes about real people, with real issues, but in a way that draws you to them, despite their faults, and helps you to understand their actions, even if you can't condone or forgive them. Highly, highly recommended.
This is a superb read, by an author whose books I love. There is nothing contrived about her characters or the situations, nothing cheap, forced, or manipulative about her stories. She writes about real people, with real issues, but in a way that draws you to them, despite their faults, and helps you to understand their actions, even if you can't condone or forgive them. Highly, highly recommended.
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- The Everlasting Hills
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- Fiction and Literature, Tween, Kids, Children's Books, Young Adult
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- 813.0 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type
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- PZ7 .H9156 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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