Eventide

Description

"When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they'd taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, an emptiness opens before them - and for many other townspeople it also promises to be a long, hard winter. A young boy living alone with his grandfather helps out a neighbor whose husband, off in Alaska, suddenly isn't coming home, leaving her to raise their two daughters. At school the children of a disabled couple suffer indignities that their parents know all too well in their own lives, with only a social worker to look after them and a violent relative to endanger them further. But in a small town a great many people encounter one another frequently, often surprisingly, and destinies soon become entwined - for good and for ill - as they confront events that sorely test the limits of their resilience and means, with no refuge available except what their own character and that of others afford them."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

THEY CAME UP FROM THE HORSE BARN IN the slanted light of early morning.

Subjects

Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• Eventide: a novelAlfred A. Knopf2004-01-01
• EventideRandom House Large Print2004
• EventideRandom House Large Print2004-01-01
• EventideeBookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2004-01-01
• EventideAlfred A. Knopf2004-01-01
• EventideVintage Books2005-01-01
• EventideHardcoverPicador2005-02-04