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020 $a0875653081 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)OCM57577440
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050 00 $aPS3568.O994$bT68 2005
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100 1 $aRozelle, Ron,$d1952-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97108837
245 10 $aTouching winter :$ba novel in four parts /$cby Ron Rozelle.
250 $a1st.
260 $aFort Worth, Tex. :$bTCU Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a181 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Touching Winter is a four-part evocation of memory and place and the yearning for home. Each part of the novel begins with a meditation on an aspect of the protagonist's life as he watches the unpredictable weather of East Texas and muses on "the right way of it," a touchstone of character used by his beloved grandfather." "When Will was a young boy, he and his grandfather enjoyed being out in the spectacular East Texas storms. These sessions taught Will many things about life - ranching, weather, character, how to be a man - and bound Will to the family land and to his grandfather. Only at the ranch does Will feel like the person he was, or would like to be, before wrong decisions turned his life down an entirely different path." "A powerful, early romance turned disastrous, and the relationship haunts him. To compensate for lost love, Will carved a niche for himself in the competitive concrete industry, inventing a technique to make mixing trucks more efficient and becoming wealthier than he could have dreamed. His marriage to a Houston socialite is thin and brittle, unsatisfying for his wife Lauren and for himself. Their daughter Aimee lives in California, as far away from her family as possible." "As Will ages, he turns to the ranch as a place of clarity in times of crisis, eventually moving back there entirely. He exchanges the public life he and Lauren led in Houston for the simplicity of walks along the rustic fence, lunch at the town's only diner with old friends, and long evenings on the porch watching the stars. Along the way, a fierce, red-breasted hawk come to represent something important for Will, and he is forced to face the consequences of earlier decisions."--BOOK JACKET.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3568.O994$iT68 2005