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Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages: A Novel - Library of American Fiction (Hardback)
Sara Rath (author)
£21.95
Hardback
328 Pages /
Published: 30/09/2005
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This book is about a northwoods struggle against a powerful mining corporation. In this first novel from award-winning writer Sara Rath, the forests and lakes of northern Wisconsin pose a daunting threat to outsider Hannah Swann, who is content with her quiet life in Madison, Wisconsin, where she teaches and writes screenplays about obscure nineteenth-century poets. Her relationship with her college-age daughter is strained yet candid, and a long-standing affair with a married professor has its own peculiar ups and downs. When Hannah unexpectedly inherits her uncle's rundown resort, she must head to the northwoods to close up and sell the business. But the only interested buyer is Ingold, an international mining company, and Hannah finds herself reluctantly operating the resort while trapped in the midst of a treacherous dispute between Ingold and Uncle Hal's activist friends. From safeguarding the wilderness to pursuing elusive new love interests, Hannah has plenty to engage her imagination at Star Lake. A new aspect of her personality emerges, one that is surprisingly courageous and compassionate. Throughout this sometimes humorous, elegantly plotted adventure with its appealing characters and lyrical depictions of nature, Hannah encounters the inevitability of change - in herself and in the nostalgic landscape of the deep North.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299215200
Number of pages: 328
Weight: 576 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25 mm
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