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4.0 out of 5 stars
Realistic "fantasy" involving out-of-body experience,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: But gently day (Hardcover)
Novelist Robert Nathan had an interest in time and created a number of stories in which characters traveled back in time, visited the future, experienced the passage of time in some unique way, or escaped time altogether. In this novel, which is somewhat reminiscent of Ambrose Bierce's story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," a plane carrying a number of solders home from the war crashes into Hemlock Mountain, near the home of one of the plane's occupants. In the moments before his eminent death, this soldier is transported back in time to his great-grandfather's farm (which later became his own). There he falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his future grandmother. After experiencing all the joys and beauty life on the farm can offer, the soldier's "spirit" returns to the crashed plane where he dies, contented. Nathan writes simply and directly and captures well the happiness of the characters and the natural beauty of the setting. The ending, before his return to the plane, offers up an interesting turn of events as well. A short novel, but compelling.
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