false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256075412m/5631674.jpg 5631674 5 <p>The author of <i>The Clearing </i>(“the finest American novel in a long, long time”—Annie Proulx) now surpasses himself with a story whose range and cast of characters is broader still, with the fate of a stolen child looming throughout.<br><br>After World War I, Sam Simoneaux returns to New Orleans determined to leave mayhem and destruction behind, and to start anew with his wife years after losing a son to illness. But when a little girl disappears from the department store where he works, he has no recourse but to join her musician parents on a Mississippi excursion steamboat, hoping to unearth clues somewhere along the river. Though ill-prepared for this rough trade in hamlets where neither civilization nor law is familiar, he enforces tolerable behavior on board and ventures ashore to piece together what happened to the girl—making a discovery that not only endangers everyone involved but also sheds new light on the murder of his own family decades before.<br><br>Against this vivid evocation of a ragged frontier nation, a man fights to redeem himself, parents contend with horrific loss, and others consider kidnapping either another job or a dream come true. The suspense—and the web of violence linking Sam to complete strangers—is relentless, compelling, and moving, the finest demonstration yet of Gautreaux’s understanding of landscape, history, and human travail and hope.</p> 5803086 3 3 2009 The Missing total:85|5:24|4:36|3:21|2:2|1:2| 85 333 252 33 4 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jul 05 12:39:19 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 12:41:53 -0700 2009
Several weeks ago, I went blog surfing and ended up on a marvelous site called "Dew on the Kudzu" where the blogmaster was celebrating the discovery of a wonderful novel entitled "The Missing" by Tim Gautreaux. I read one para...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 08:34:06 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 08:55:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:23 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 08:01:48 -0700 2009 Reviewers appreciated not just the prose and the characters of The Missing but also how different it was from most contemporary novels. While much fiction today revels in ambiguity and irony, Gautreaux's story has an overall moral theme about justice and revenge. That's not to say it's a sermon, how...

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