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Charley Bland [Paperback]

Mary Lee Settle (Author)

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Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers; First Edition. first thus edition (1991)
ASIN: B001AMA6JM

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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is breathtaking!, July 6, 2003

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I loved this book so much that I was moved to come on here and tell you all about it. I had always heard of Mary Lee Settle, but had never read her work. I picked this book up in a used bookstore and feel so thankful that I did. Her writing is gorgeous, mesmerizing, full of truths and observations that we all see, but so few can articulate. It's a slender novel and yet rich with detail so you end up feeling like it's much longer than it is. Settle represents this entire community and culture so well that you feel like you know these people, and the love story at the center of the novel is utterly timeless. The book is romantic and heartbreaking and painful not in the popular "pink roses" sense of romance, but so much like the way many have lived romantic love....aching and bittersweet and complicated. I am a writer and an avid reader and this book knocked me out in a way that so few do. Highly recommended. I plan to read all of her other books now.

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It seemed that when I was growing up, all the wild roads led to Charley Bland. Read the first page

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wild colonial boy, coal business, work ball

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Charley Bland, Bobby Low, Plain George, New York, Anne Randolph, Kitty Puss, Beauregard Street, Canona Country Club, Churchill Downs, Spotsylvania County, Wayfaring Stranger, Broker Carver, Civil War, Letitia Carver, Bloody Run, Botetourt County, Egeria Springs, First World War, Hilton Head, Little Dudley, Melinda Cutright, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth, Stoke Poges, West Virginia

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The BEULAH QUINTET (5 IN A BOXED SET) (Signature Edition) by Settle in Front Matter
The Kentucky Derby (Great Moments in Sports) by Michael Goodman on page 177
The Day of the Fox by Norman Lewis in Back Matter
Jews Without Money: A Novel by Michael Gold in Back Matter
The Civil War (Great American Writers Series) by Stephen Crane on page 153

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