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Anita Shreve
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Light on Snow |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Library Binding |
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304 |
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2008-05-29 |
| ISBN: |
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1435293665 |
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Paw Prints 2008-05-29 |
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0.8 pounds |
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5.5 x 8.25 x 1.0 inches |
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Reprint |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where he knelt. I looked down into the sleeping bag. A tiny face gazed up at me, the eyes wide despite their many folds. The baby was wrapped in a bloody towel, and its lips were blue.' The events of a December afternoon on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow will forever alter eleven-year-old Nicky Dillon's understanding of the world which she is about to enter and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put behind him an unthinkable tragedy; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is superseded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of thirty-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, hers is a tale of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.
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http://bookmooch.com/1435293665 |
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