Children of the Wind

Fiction & Literature
Cover of the book Children of the Wind by Ed Sundt, Xlibris US
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Ed Sundt ISBN: 9781479741984
Publisher: Xlibris US Publication: November 9, 2012
Imprint: Xlibris US Language: English
Author: Ed Sundt
ISBN: 9781479741984
Publisher: Xlibris US
Publication: November 9, 2012
Imprint: Xlibris US
Language: English

On a scorching, dusty road in south-central Illinois in the late 1930s, Doc finds Cully, eleven, running from his fathers death in the fields. He takes Cully in, as he had taken in other stray creatures, and teaches him the life of a rural veterinarian. Thus the boy gains an understanding that death, a commonplace in natures cycle, reaches animals and people, young and old, by accident or intent. One day a letter from Connecticut, three-months delayed, arrives for the boy Cully from the mother who had abandoned him two years earlier. The letter, an old out-of-tune piano, a curling photograph, and some names buried deep in his vanished youth draw Doc with Cully eastward on the National Road, Cully toward his future and Doc toward his forgotten youth. With quiet, poetic force, the journal-told story emerges like the gradual focusing of an old stereopticon, the two pictures blending to reveal an unsuspected three-dimensional depth as the lost boy searches for his mother and Doc tries to piece together a repressed and catastrophic past. Cully and Docs odyssey of discovery is steeped in knowledge of and love for the land across which they journey. It is a true American myth, yet it reverberates with echoes of the Arthurian legend, of Henry Hudson, of the orphan trains, of traumatic conflagrations, and of the dying rooms where waifs bodies are sold for cash. The dramatic and surprising ending is at once a tearful defeat and a smile-producing victory.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

On a scorching, dusty road in south-central Illinois in the late 1930s, Doc finds Cully, eleven, running from his fathers death in the fields. He takes Cully in, as he had taken in other stray creatures, and teaches him the life of a rural veterinarian. Thus the boy gains an understanding that death, a commonplace in natures cycle, reaches animals and people, young and old, by accident or intent. One day a letter from Connecticut, three-months delayed, arrives for the boy Cully from the mother who had abandoned him two years earlier. The letter, an old out-of-tune piano, a curling photograph, and some names buried deep in his vanished youth draw Doc with Cully eastward on the National Road, Cully toward his future and Doc toward his forgotten youth. With quiet, poetic force, the journal-told story emerges like the gradual focusing of an old stereopticon, the two pictures blending to reveal an unsuspected three-dimensional depth as the lost boy searches for his mother and Doc tries to piece together a repressed and catastrophic past. Cully and Docs odyssey of discovery is steeped in knowledge of and love for the land across which they journey. It is a true American myth, yet it reverberates with echoes of the Arthurian legend, of Henry Hudson, of the orphan trains, of traumatic conflagrations, and of the dying rooms where waifs bodies are sold for cash. The dramatic and surprising ending is at once a tearful defeat and a smile-producing victory.

More books from Xlibris US

Cover of the book Lincoln Mental Care Center by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Little Clifty United Methodist Church by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Coffee by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book The Bones of Jack by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book The Wicked Shall Rot by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Two Little Indians and the Sister Made Three by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Pawns of the Game by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Something for Your Journey by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Forgiveness in the Seeds of the Soul by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Gator Pie and Love Songs by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book The Song of Tampopo by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Marshall's Big House on the Hill by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Sophie Tales by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Life on the Fly by Ed Sundt
Cover of the book Nurturing Giftedness to Genius by Ed Sundt
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy