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The Fourth Marker (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di L. William Gibbons (Autore, Illustratore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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With a supernatural undercurrent, The Fourth Marker is the story of an elderly man, Gabriel Townsend, whose spirit is being crushed between the metaphoric anvil of his pragmatic views and the falling hammer of his wife's pending death. The story revolves around a family, the Townsends, whose heritage is partly Native American.

The United States' Indian Removal Act of 1830, which resulted in the Trail of Tears episode in American history, required all indigenous people, with few exceptions, to leave their tribal lands in the southeast and east, along the eastern seaboard. Some Lenape (Delaware) tribal members on the Delmarva Peninsula as well as other areas in the east, defied the government and remained on their ancestral lands, hiding from authorities in the Great Pocomoke Forest, outlying islands, and swamps on the southern peninsula.

A conscious decision to "hide in plain sight" or not, they eventually intermarried and bred with local whites, African-Americans, and mulattoes. Many families whose ties to Delmarva date back a hundred years or more share a heritage with those aboriginal people; however, the prejudice and racial bias of a bygone era caused many to ignore – even deny – their lineage.

In the story, while a child on the family farm during the Great Depression, Gabe Townsend rejected legends of his Native American ancestors and ignored miraculous cures of family members. Gabe's half-breed grandfather, Noopah, tried to teach him tribal legends and the old ways, explaining that, after most Indians had been killed or driven from their lands by the Army and settlers, tribal elders returned to their lands in spirit form after their deaths. They dwelled at a sacred hill on the family's land and protected their descendants from early death and white man's diseases.

During those years, three family members were cured of life-threatening diseases, but Gabe's mother blindly credited their recoveries to the nascent field of modern medicine. After each recovery, a person of evil character and not of tribal blood disappeared, followed by the mysterious appearance of a wood marker on the sacred tribal hill. Yet, despite those events and Noopah's words, Gabe adhered to his mother's intractable views.

Now facing the loss of his wife, he relives his childhood memories, guided by the spirit of his grandfather from beyond – well beyond – the grave. Finally understanding the truth of long ago, he decides to beg the tribal spirits to take his life in exchange for his wife's, aware that a fourth marker would signify his own life – and death.

As Gabe's father noted, "some understand only what they see; others see only what they understand." The Fourth Marker highlights this most human of vices against the backdrop of Native American legends with ample helpings of farm life during the Great Depression.
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  4. Data di pubblicazione
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L'autore

L. William (Bill) Gibbons is a published newspaper columnist, political cartoonist, novelist, and short story author. Other published works include Marrow Bone Road And Other Tales, available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites. His essays have been published on NPR radio stations, and he has been a guest blogger and a university guest lecturer. The Fourth Marker placed in the quarterfinals in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition. Bill lives near Salisbury, Maryland, in a very old house with his wife, Sharon, their nineteen-month-old daughter, and two extremely headstrong cats. A native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, Bill became a father for the first time, at the age of sixty-five, of a baby girl. He hopes that, through his writing, he will be able to afford his daughter's college tuition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CRUURK4
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1586 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
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  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
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  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 303 pagine
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KitKat
5,0 su 5 stelle Wonderful period story
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 25 agosto 2013
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The Fourth Marker by William Gibbons is a period story and a modern one at the same time. The story begins in the 1930's, where we get a vivid picture of the times. Gibbons gives us the perfect old country doctor, the farm wife, and the main character's father who has taken ill. The main character, Townsend, as a boy. The story is told through his eyes as he observes and makes sense out of the strange things his American Indian grandfather tells him and shows him.

As an elderly man, Townsend's wife is dying of a brain tumor. It is this awful thing that makes him think back to the past, and what his grandfather told him. He then sets about putting what he knows into use to save his wife. The book explored the Indian lore of his grandfather, the views of the 1930's on that lore, and handles it in a matter of fact way. As truth, not a glorification of the supernatural.

It is a story of spiritual discovery, but it comes about in a surprising way.

The details are engaging and wonderful, small touches, that paint a vivid and lively picture of life in the 30's. Gibbons gets the details right, the nuances of speech and attitude. Of environment and reaction. And he gets the love Townsend fells for his wife exactly on point. The reader feels for this man and his wife and wants to see her saved.

This is a great debut novel and I am looking forward to the next one.
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Yvonne
3,0 su 5 stelle SO, SO
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 ottobre 2013
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Read all of it but probably will not buy another one of author's books. Can't remember anything about it at this time.
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S.Green
5,0 su 5 stelle It also had a wonderful element of anticipation
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 24 luglio 2014
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The Fourth Marker was well written. It also had a wonderful element of anticipation. I thought it a great and quick read.
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