Wayfaring stranger: a novel
(Large Print)
Author:
NoveList Series:
Holland family saga volume 1.
Series:
Holland family saga ; volume 1.
Published:
[Place of publication not identified] : Thorndike Pr, 2014., Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014.
Format:
Large Print
Physical Desc:
625 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Status:
Ashland Large Print Fiction
LP BURKE
Description
A decade after taking a shot at Bonnie and Clyde during one of their notorious armed robberies, a Depression teen-turned-soldier escapes death during the Battle of the Bulge and marries a beautiful young woman with whom he seeks his fortune along the Texas-Louisiana oil coast. (suspense). Simultaneous.
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Ashland Large Print Fiction
LP BURKE
Available
Nov 9, 2021
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Presque Isle Large Print Fiction
LP F Bur
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Aug 3, 2022
Sayner Large Print Fiction
LP Burke
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Sep 28, 2019
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Language:
English
ISBN:
1410467767, 9781410467768
Notes
Description
"Begins in West Texas in 1934. At age sixteen, Weldon Holland encounters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker traveling with their accomplices after having just pulled off one of their notorious armed robberies. Weldon is smitten by Bonnie, but because of Clyde and Bonnie's duplicity and the disrespect they show his grandfather, Weldon ends up putting a bullet through the rear window of Clyde's stolen automobile. The story then jumps to 1944 and the Ardennes Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, where Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland saves his sergeant, Hershel Pine, from death by suffocation when he is buried alive in his foxhole under the treads of a Waffen SS Tiger tank. Weldon and Hershel survive the executions of the wounded by the SS and escape on a freight train deep into Nazi Germany. There, they stumble into an extermination camp deserted by the SS, and discover among the stacked bodies a young woman named Rosita Lowenstein, who is not only a remarkable woman but a relative of Rosa Luxemburg (known as "Red Rosa," whose mother's name was Lowenstein). Eventually, Weldon will make her his bride, and the three friends will return to Texas to seek their fortunes. But when Weldon, Hershel, and Rosita form a pipeline corporation, they enter the domain of jackals known as the oil business. They meet Roy Wiseheart--one of the wealthiest men in Texas and a former Marine aviator haunted with guilt for deserting his squadron leader over the South Pacific--and Roy's wife Clara, a vicious anti-semite who is determined to make Weldon and Rosita's life a nightmare. It will be the frontier justice upheld by Weldon's grandfather, Texas lawman Hackberry Holland, and the legendary antics of Bonnie and Clyde that shape Weldon's plans for saving his family from the evil forces that lurk in peacetime America and threaten to destroy them all."--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Burke, J. L. (2014). Wayfaring stranger: a novel. [Place of publication not identified], Thorndike Pr.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Burke, James Lee, 1936-. 2014. Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel. [Place of publication not identified], Thorndike Pr.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Burke, James Lee, 1936-, Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel. [Place of publication not identified], Thorndike Pr, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Burke, James Lee. Wayfaring Stranger: A Novel. [Place of publication not identified], Thorndike Pr, 2014.
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