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Winter runRobert L. Ashcom
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Winter run

224 pagesFirst published 20021 edition
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"Charlie Lewis is the only child of city people who, after the war, choose to live at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains on a "gentleman's farm" near Charlottesville. Six years old when his family settles in the renovated corn crib on old Professor James's place, Charlie grows up in his personal version of heaven. His innocence is, of course, lost in the process. And so is his version of heaven.". "But, as the old saying goes, still waters run deep and Charlie runs deep, with a natural (almost supernatural) affinity for the land and its animals. For knowledge, he instinctively turns to a…

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  • Other · English · 2002
    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 224 pages · 9781565123281
Hunting dogsFarm lifeMale friendshipRace relationsFictionBoysAfrican American agricultural laborersHuman-animal relationships