The World As We Know It
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- R$ 52,90
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- R$ 52,90
Descrição da editora
Critically acclaimed author Joseph Monninger has penned a subtle and heartrending love story of friendship, true love, and the surprising twists that can alter our destinies forever.
A lifetime of friendship begins the day brothers Ed and Allard save Sarah from drowning in an icy river near their rural New Hampshire home.
Though their paths diverge through the years, the connection between the three endures until a heartbreaking tragedy in the remote mountains of Wyoming forces Sarah and Allard to confront the unthinkable.
In their grief, they find themselves on separate journeys that test the enduring bonds of their relationship and time’s unremitting power to heal.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Critically-acclaimed Monninger, known for outstanding character development and lavish landscapes, does it again with this tale of young New Hampshire brothers and the world they construct. Ed and Allard live in a small room under a massive "dream map, sharing visions of exploration and building a spectacular future. While ice-skating down the river, they find Sarah, a stranded girl stuck in the ice who changes the course of their adventures. The three become fast friends and, over the years, come to inhabit a world completely of their own. Determined to be wild-life filmmakers, they work to achieve some notoriety and discover everything mother nature has to offer. The love between this dogged, adventurous trio especially the adolescent love of Allard and Sarah is innocent, sincere, and touching. Monniger (Eternal on the Water) presents a fascinating exploration about true love, fate, and the roads taken in life.
