Monica Wood

Ernie's Ark (eBook, ePUB)

A collection of compelling stories about love, laughter and life in a small town

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A heart-wrenching story collection from the acclaimed author of THE ONE-IN-A-MILLION BOY, Monica Wood. ERNIE'S ARK tells interconnected stories of a small town's people, determined to survive... Perfect for those who love reading Anne Tyler, Joanna Cannon and Emma Healey.

'Loving character portraits... help us understand the human condition' Boston Globe

Abbott Falls, Maine, a town once drenched with ordinary hopes and dreams, is now praying for a small drop of good fortune. Ernie Whitten - out of a job and tending to his ill wife - needs it more than most. Struck with sudden inspiration, Ernie builds a giant ark in his backyard. It is a work of art, a vessel to carry them both away, and a plea to God to spare Marie, come hell or high water.

As the ark takes shape, the rest of the town carries on.

There's Dan Little, sent to fine Ernie for building the ark, who makes a significant discovery about himself. Francine Love is a precocious thirteen-year-old who longs to be part of a family. And CEO Henry John McCoy, an impatient man determined to be a good father to his twenty-six-year-old daughter.

The people of Abbott Falls will try their best to hold their community together, against the fiercest of odds...

What readers are saying about ERNIE'S ARK:

'An astounding book. Built one piece at a time, one story on top of the next until the reader is left with a magnificent monument to its characters'

'A gorgeous collection about the meaning of life, the beauty of the mundane, the quiet, day-to-day events that make up our lives and define who we are. The perfect book'

'Monica Wood writes this series of interrelated short stories with heart and intelligence. Honest and heart-warming'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472232007
• Artikelnr.: 47851007

Autorenporträt

Monica Wood is a novelist, memoirist, and playwright. Her most recent novel, The One-in-a-Million Boy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), has been published in 22 languages in 30 countries and won the 2017 Nautilus Award (Gold) and the New England Society Book Award. She is also the author of When We Were the Kennedys (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), an Oprah magazine summer-reading pick and winner of both the May Sarton Memoir Award and the 2016 Maine Literary Award. Ernie's Ark was excerpted on NPR's "Selected Shorts" and selected by several towns and cities as their "One Book, One Community" read.