Nickel Mountain - A Pastoral Novel

Here is the story of Henry Soames and the 16-year-old girl who drifts into his life and remains to become part of it. Quietly, delicately, Gardner reveals what these two are to each other as the years pass, as they move through the universal rituals of courtship and marriage, the birth of a child, the loss of innocence, confession, atonement, forgiveness, the acceptance of death. The characters - Henry, the girl he marries, their son and all their friends - are as plain and as memorable as the people encountered in one's childhood.

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