Paul Schoaff

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A Touch of Rural Justice -- Another Illinois Love Story (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Another story by an author who loves Illinois...Building on the characters from Twin Beeches, this story focuses on the destruction of prime Illinois farm land to get at valuable coal underneath. The author explores all the sides to the argument while placing young Eddie and Martha Jo Hawkins into the middle of the fight when the mining company decides to destroy their home, Twin Beeches, to build a coal processing plant 'big enough to be seen all the way from Peoria'. People from the town of Woodland depend on the jobs provided by the mine. They don't appreciate Eddie shutting down the existing mine with his sabotage schemes, and threaten Rural Justice to burn Twin Beeches themselves if Eddie isn't stopped. The mining company believes in helping America attain energy independence, making money, providing jobs and rewarding investors -- all worthy aims. The story tries to be sensitive to both sides of the coal-mining debate and to give credit as it is due. Above all, when you set out to use violent acts to get your point across, unintended consequences will usually result, often ones you wish you could take back. Through all this tension, the issue of who Eddie really is and who he is becoming are explored. The author, who once participated in a "Touch of Rural Justice" visitation himself, creates a believable and exciting story out of the quiet Illinois countryside, once again proving that things, and people, are not always what they appear to be.

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• Größe: 0.43MB
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Autor

Thank you for the unexpected amount of success my books have attained...I thought people would read them, but the degree of acceptance is gratifying.

I write from an island of clay in the sandpine country of North Carolina. I woke from a dream one night with the story of Twin Beeches fighting to get out of my fingers and into the computer screen. Rural Justice, the fight against the deprivations of strip mining, is based on the experience of many people who found their lives uprooted by the monstrous shovels, trucks and loaders needed to fuel our ever expanding electrical appetite. Rural Murder contrasts the traditional values and practices of former days against the inroads of more liberal activities.... Martha jo and her extended family are the consistent protaginal threads.

My memories of all those people and institutions of my youth who made up the matrix of rich and poor, young and old, ambitious and idle, pious and hell-raising....all are used to create startlingly true to life characters.

Adding my imagination, I created stories worthy of the players, ones I hope will leave you moved and wanting to know if there is still a quiet town named Woodland you can visit, sit in the park and try to beat the world's best checker players, or try your hand at finding the spot where Fay Rawley and his Cadillac are truly hidden.

May you, too, be blessed with a background to which you can hearken back when you need to think how far we have come, and whether we've really made progress.

Your comments, positive or not, are appreciated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paul Schoaff
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301687169
• Artikelnr.: 72357918