From gnarled roots to blasted top, the large trunk was split open, a dark wound where a bolt of lightning had rent it apart and fire had burned its center out, leaving it hollow. They meet a great many local people who receive somewhat sketchy, but distinctive characterization: a kind neighbor, Maggie Dodd, and her blind husband, George, who is always listening to recordings of classic books a traveling peddler who sees too much, talks too much, and suffers a grisly fate a stalwart, handsome, blond farmer (almost a caricature of the Jolly Green Giant) who is the Harvest Lord, a title held for seven years a local sexpot named Tamar and her feebleminded girl-child, a. Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon My rating: 5 of 5 stars Again I heard the cry, and I approached, circling the tree until I was looking at it from the opposite side. Their flight from New York City to Cornwall Combe partakes of the romantic backto-the-land movement - conveniently hastened by Ned's losing his job and the pair of them falling in love with an eighteenth-century house that needs renovating. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Tom Tryon - son of clothier Arthur Lane Tryon and not, as was commonly believed - actor Glenn Tryon- grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual. Material type: materialTypeLabel BookPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1974Description: 401 p. Constantine, would-be artist turned advertising executive, his nervous, rundown wife, Beth, and their chronically-ill daughter, Kate, exemplify those whom Thoreau described as living lives of quiet desperation.
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