818 records matched your query       

Author:

Rash, Ron, 1953- author.

Title:

The caretaker : a novel / Ron Rash.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

252 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Male friendship--Fiction.
Korean War, 1950-1953--Veterans--Fiction.
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome--Patients--Fiction.
Cemeteries--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Blowing Rock (N.C.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Summary:

"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob's wife, Naomi, as well. Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clarke is an outcast in Blowing Rock, an outsider, poor and uneducated, who works as a seasonal maid in the town's most elegant hotel. When Naomi eloped with Jacob a few months after her arrival, the marriage scandalized the community, most of all his wealthy parents, who disinherited him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives. A tender examination of male friendship and rivalry as well as a riveting, page-turning novel of familial devotion, The Caretaker brilliantly depicts the human capacity for delusion and destruction all too often justified as acts of love"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0385544278
9780385544276

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

WUPB305 -- Arnolds Park Public Library (Arnolds Park)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

YUPD232 -- DeWitt Community Library (De Witt)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

EFPB605 -- Inwood Public Library (Inwood)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

DMPC403 -- Montgomery Memorial Library (Jewell)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

HHPC765 -- Laurens Public Library (Laurens)

XIPA157 -- Lewis Public Library (Lewis)

CGPC482 -- Marengo Public Library (Marengo)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GQPB641 -- Melbourne Public Library (Melbourne)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

VKPE334 -- Oelwein Public Library (Oelwein)

ZUPD675 -- Onawa Public Library (Onawa)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)

NVPB663 -- Riceville Public Library (Riceville)

ESPD725 -- Sibley Public Library (Sibley)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WXPD305 -- Spirit Lake Public Library (Spirit Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)