Résultats pour "Ronnie" dans Petites villes et ruralité

When a young widow named Nia moves with her little boy to the picturesque village of Talysarn – with its beautiful landscape of lakes, woodlands and soaring mountains – she thinks it's the new start she's looking for. At first, it seems perfect. Until a vicious rumour starts – that she's having an affair with an older man who lives nearby. And this gossip spreads like wildfire, eventually reaching the ears of his wife – the fierce head teacher at the local primary school. And before Nia knows it, her dream of a new beginning has taken a terrible turn.

Drawing on the same lyrical prose and strong sense of place that distinguished his award-winning first novel, One Foot in Eden, Ron Rash has written a book about the deepest human themes: the love of the land, the hold of the dead on the living, and the need to dive beneath the surface to arrive at a deeper truth. Saints at the River confirms the arrival of one of today's most gifted storytellers.

Transporting a prisoner is dangerous work as any lawman will tell you. For Marshal Jim Long that danger is increased when the prisoner puts a bounty on his own head. Now, a posse is chasing Long with the intent of killing his prisoner. He stumbles upon a woman abandoned by her husband. With danger not far behind, he has no choice but to protect the woman and her son as well as his prisoner. The posse thinks it will be easy to kill Jace Connors and collect the bounty, but they don’t know Jim Long.

*Named a Garden & Gun and Atlanta Journal Constitution best book of the year* Winner of the 2020 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature "Mesmerizing...He's one of the best living American writers."--Janet Maslin, New York Times Book Review From bestselling and award-winning writer Ron...