The Valley of Light by Terry Kay

The Valley of Light by Terry Kay

The novel begins when a stranger comes to town.Noah Locke, a gifted fisherman, has wandered up from Georgia, doing odd jobs and fishing. Noah had been with the Forty-second Infantry when they liberated Dachau and images of what he saw there still haunt his dreams. The friendly residents of Bowerstown, N.C. take an interest in the mysterious young man and encourage him to stay at least until the annual fishing contest. Littleberry Davis, the six-time champion has become too arrogant and the townsfolk would like to see him taken down a peg. Noah agrees to stay and is given a room by a young widow whose soldier husband killed himself shortly after returning home from the war. Over the course of the next week, Noah will be let into the secret lives of the town's residents and join with them as they mourn a tragedy. The novel ends with a miracle that surprises everyone except Noah.and will be the sign he needed to find his way home at last. Beautifully capturing the rhythms and personalities of small town life, Terry Kay's novel is a tender celebration of the special gifts inside each of us. The simplicity of Kay's prose belies the mythic nature of his story. Luminous, memorable, and deeply moving, The Valley of Light is Kay's finest work to date.

Bringing Lottie Home, The Runaway, Shadow Song, and the now-classic To Dance with the White Dog, which was twice nominated for the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award and won the Southeastern Library Association Book of the Year Award, are among Terry Kay's works. Terry Kay has four children and seven grandchildren after 44 years of marriage. Georgi, he lives in Athens.

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ISBN 13	9780743475952
ISBN 10	074347595X
Title	The Valley of Light
Author	Terry Kay
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Washington Square Press
Year published	2004-12-15
Number of pages	256
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