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Title details for The Grace That Keeps This World by Tom Bailey - Available

The Grace That Keeps This World

A Novel

by Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey
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On the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, survival is a way of life for the Hazen family. Gary Hazen is a respected forester and hunter, known for his good instincts and meticulous planning. He and his wife, Susan, have raised their sons to appreciate the satisfaction of this difficult but honest life. In spite of this, the boys, men now, are slipping away. His older son, Gary David, is secretly dating a woman of whom his father would not approve even as Kevin, the younger boy, struggles against the limits of his family’s hardscrabble lifestyle, wanting something more. On the first day of hunting season the Hazen men enter the woods, unaware that the trip they are embarking on will force them to come to terms with their differences and will forever change their lives.
In The Grace That Keeps This World, Tom Bailey gives us an emotional page-turner, infused with a deep sense of foreboding. Alternately narrated by the Hazens and their neighbors in Lost Lake, the story perfectly captures the enduring rhythms of life in a rural town.
The Grace That Keeps This World is an October, 2005 Book Sense pick.

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  • Release date

    November 1, 2005

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415952153
      • File size: 238007 KB
      • Duration: 08:15:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Tom Bailey tells the story of the Gary and Susan Hazen, high school sweethearts who live off the land and raise their kids in a remote part of the Adirondacks. Bailey's story extends beyond the Hazens and their two boys, capturing both the point of view and personalities of the locals in a small town. As events spiral out of control for the Hazen family, select members of the community report on the story. Bailey reads stiffly, providing a distinct voice for some characters, but his pace is thrown at times by his alterations of tone and inflection. While still entertaining, Bailey's delivery shortchanges the array of likable and believable characters. H.L.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 1, 2005
      This accomplished, moving first novel (after Bailey's collection Crow Man
      ) is about fathers and sons, tough love and compassion, the bonds of community and the solace of belief. Gary and Susan Hazen are natives of Lost Lake, a hardscrabble town in the Adirondacks, high school sweethearts who have raised their two sons on the satisfaction of living off the land. At this suspenseful narrative's outset, Susan recollects a fateful day, the start of deer hunting season, hinting that some tragedy has struck her loving but combustible family. Gary is a highly principled and respected woodsman and hunter, but his self-righteousness brings him into conflict with his sons. Both young men have secrets that will strain the family fabric, and together father and sons weave a tangle of intention and circumstance that will culminate in an act that will test their power to survive. Alternately narrated by the Hazen family and members of the community, the novel sustains an elegiac tone even as events rise to a dramatic denouement. This novel has the validity of deeply felt truths and characters who are bound and motivated by a love that arches the chasm of divergent ambitions and desires. Agent, Jane Gelfman
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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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