| Where River Turns to Sky Contributor(s): Kleiner, Gregg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380805596 ISBN-13: 9780380805594 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: Weaving a tale of immense power in his magical voice, Kleiner tells the story of a man determined to realize an improbable dream after the death of his best friend. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Friendship |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96022024 |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 5.34" W x 8.03" (0.74 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Oregon |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eighty-year-old George Castor promised he would never let his best friend Ralph die alone at the Silver Gardens Nursing Home--but Ralph passed on while George was away fishing. Distraught, guilt-stricken and seeking redemption, George buys a broken-down mansion in Looking glass, Oregon, paints it fire-engine red, and begins searching for other old folks to share it with him. Because George has made a new promise that will alter the course of the rest of his life. And, with the help of a miraculous old woman named Grace, he assembles a ragtag bunch of aging strangers, determined to make their last days on earth--and his own--an adventure. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kleiner, Gregg: - At age 16, Gregg Kleiner spent a year in the mountains of northern Thailand as an exchange student. For a month of that year, he lived at a Buddhist monastery as a novice under the tutelage of an aged monk. He has worked as a dairy goat farmer, hotel concierge, freelance journalist, wildlife biologist, and technical writer. He lives in western Oregon with his partner Lori and their two small children, Eli and Sophia. Where River Turns To Sky is his first novel. |