Swenson, Wallace J.
Pine Marten Wallace J. Swenson - First edition. - Farmington Hills, Mich Five Star 2015 - 231 pages 23 cm
Pine Marten tells of two people dealing with a soul-shattering tragedy in the Missouri wilderness of 1855. Woodcutter Salem Greene leaves his family alone for two days, then returns to find his wife and nine-year-old daughter brutally raped and murdered. His son is missing, presumed dead. Greene finds the perpetrators, but the horrific way he exacts retribution makes him feel unfit to live with others. He goes into exile and tries desperately to forget his past. Unbeknownst to Greene, his twelve-year-old son Martin escaped and lives in a cave two miles away. Naked but for a ragged bloody nightshirt, and defenseless except for a butcher knife, Martin engages in a primal search for food by day. At night, he hides, terrified by what lurks outside the cave. One trying to escape the past; one searching for a future. Will their paths cross again. --Page 2 of cover.
9781432831219 1432831216
2015022035
Fathers and sons
Life change events
Fiction--Historical.
Fiction--Action & Adventure.
Manners and customs.
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Swe 32
Pine Marten Wallace J. Swenson - First edition. - Farmington Hills, Mich Five Star 2015 - 231 pages 23 cm
Pine Marten tells of two people dealing with a soul-shattering tragedy in the Missouri wilderness of 1855. Woodcutter Salem Greene leaves his family alone for two days, then returns to find his wife and nine-year-old daughter brutally raped and murdered. His son is missing, presumed dead. Greene finds the perpetrators, but the horrific way he exacts retribution makes him feel unfit to live with others. He goes into exile and tries desperately to forget his past. Unbeknownst to Greene, his twelve-year-old son Martin escaped and lives in a cave two miles away. Naked but for a ragged bloody nightshirt, and defenseless except for a butcher knife, Martin engages in a primal search for food by day. At night, he hides, terrified by what lurks outside the cave. One trying to escape the past; one searching for a future. Will their paths cross again. --Page 2 of cover.
9781432831219 1432831216
2015022035
Fathers and sons
Life change events
Fiction--Historical.
Fiction--Action & Adventure.
Manners and customs.
West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--19th century
Swe 32