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Thirteen Moons: A Novel Description: Charles Frazier's Thirteen Moons is the story of one man's remarkable life, spanning a century of relentless change. At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Will's character. All the while, his love of Claire, the enigmatic and captivating charge of volatile and powerful Featherstone, will forever rule Will's heart.~^In a distinct voice filled with both humor and yearning, Will tells of a lifelong search for home, the hunger for fortune and adventure, the rebuilding of a trampled culture, and above all an enduring pursuit of passion. |
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he comes to realize, "When all else is lost and gone forever, there
is yearning. One of the few welcome lessons age teaches is that only desire
trumps time." Will Cooper, in the hands of Charles Frazier, becomes
a classic American soul: a man devoted to a place and its people, a woman,
and a way of life, all of which are forever just beyond his reach. Thirteen
Moons takes us from the uncharted wilderness of an unspoiled continent,
across the South, up and down the Mississippi, and to the urban clamor
of a raw Washington City. Throughout, Will is swept along as the wild
beauty of the nineteenth century gives way to the telephones, automobiles,
and encroaching railways of the twentieth. Steeped in history, rich in
insight, and filled with moments of sudden beauty, Thirteen Moons is an
unforgettable work of fiction by an American master.
Author Profile:Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.
Author Profile:Charles Frazier grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. Cold Mountain, his highly acclaimed first novel, was an international bestseller, and won the National Book Award in 1997.
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Average by Amitabha Bagchi Description: Arindam Chatterjee is a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and maths but the yearning to be the drummer of a rock band. Both of which necessitate his admission to the premier engineering college of India, the IIT, where life revolves as much around proving rarefied mathematical truths as it does chasing the elusive high of rock stardom at the IIT Rock Fest ... Lyrical, spare, and charmingly self-deprecatory Amitabha Bagchi's debut novel is a deeply funny account of growing up intelligent, sensitive, ambitious, and confused. Author Profile:Amitabha Bagchi was born in Delhi and went to school there. The last few years of school were a blur of exams - Junior Science Talent Search, National Talent Search, Annual Maths and Physics Olympiads - and coaching classes to prepare for those exams. He finally found himself at IIT Delhi in the summer of 1992 thinking that the worst was over. It was not. Belying the expectations raised by his uninspriring performance at IIT, Amitabha got his PhD in Computer Science in 2002. Then, after loitering around for a couple of years with the nebulous designation of post-doc, he returned to IIT Delhi where he is currently employed as an assistant professor. |
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