Redemption Falls (Audiobook)

from izzysbks

Redemption Falls was recommended by Library Thing because I read Cold Mountain. I was in the need of a read so I gave it a shot but my wife returned it to the library before I could read it. Luckily, it hadn't been checked out when I was finally ready to pick it up. At first I didn't know what to...

from jerhogan

It was hard to read - not quite Ulysses but tough nevertheless. The characters are very unsympathetic. Even though O'Keeffe is a hero to many he is hard to live with in private life and in a novel. The ending is redemptive though and makes the slog almost worth it! Not as good as "Star of the Sea".

from delphica

Often when I read novels like this, where the story unfolds from about a million different points of view via letters and newspaper articles and diary entries and the time jumps all over the place, I think to myself "I've put in a lot of reading time, I've paid my dues, I'm too old for these shen...

from andrewkbrown

The book is set in the days following the American civil war and it's main themes are the chaos, hurt and continuing hatreds that civil war creates. Admittedly it isn't the easiest book to get into. The language in the first chapter is as dense and deliberately confusing as anything I've read; an...

from andrewkbrown

The book is set in the days following the American civil war and it's main themes are the chaos, hurt and continuing hatreds that civil war creates. Admittedly it isn't the easiest book to get into. The language in the first chapter is as dense and deliberately confusing as anything I've read; an...