Amy Hale Auker
Paperback | Pages: 189 pages Rating: 4.59 | 22 Users | 6 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Story Is the Thing |
| ISBN: | 1942428030 (ISBN13: 9781942428039) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | WILLA Literary Award Nominee for Original Softcover Fiction (Finalist) (2015) |
Commentary Supposing Books The Story Is the Thing
The old cowboy is gone, but he left his story behind.It is a story of love, loss and life lessons, of confession and absolution,a story of loneliness and a story of coming together.
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| Title | : | The Story Is the Thing |
| Author | : | Amy Hale Auker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 189 pages |
| Published | : | December 14th 2014 by Pen-L Publishing |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
Rating Containing Books The Story Is the Thing
Ratings: 4.59 From 22 Users | 6 ReviewsWrite Up Containing Books The Story Is the Thing
A book immediately gets an extra star when I forgo all responsibilities just to finish it. I just couldn't leave the story hanging. Amy Hale Auker has a way with words that is at once descriptive and deep. You can tell she spends her time with poets and songwriters because her writing is lyrical and rhythmic. I enjoyed the story and the characters very much, but the setting was what held my attention. The descriptions of the camps and slides and even the cottage where Uncle Bill lives serve toLove!I love this story and the setting it took place in. The author makes you feel as if you are right there in the story.
Stories about cowboys and their lives have never been my thing. Having said that, I'll continue by saying that The Story is the Thing by Amy Hale Auker is one of the loveliest, most beautifully written, and deeply sensitive books I've read in ages.The story line involves ranch owners, workers, and others written about on a series of yellow writing pads by William Morgan before his death, and read by Katy, an heir to the ranch. The action switches from the notebooks to actual accounts by each of
A book immediately gets an extra star when I forgo all responsibilities just to finish it. I just couldn't leave the story hanging. Amy Hale Auker has a way with words that is at once descriptive and deep. You can tell she spends her time with poets and songwriters because her writing is lyrical and rhythmic. I enjoyed the story and the characters very much, but the setting was what held my attention. The descriptions of the camps and slides and even the cottage where Uncle Bill lives serve to
Chances taken, love lost, lessons learned, life moves on. The Story Is the Thing is the third book written by Amy Hale Auker and with each book her writing gets better, her words more lyrical, her story more heart-felt, more poignant. This book is written like a love letter.It seems Ive know a man like Uncle Bill before and Ill bet you did too and that is what is wonderful about this book that we can find people we know in each of the characters. Julia is the spirited outsider trying to find her
I've heard Amy read her work aloud on a few occasions, am familiar with her phrasing and her voice and could hear it loud in this, another evocation of a place and a way of life I know little about but studded with emotions I recognise. For me, not so breathtaking as 'Winter of Beauty, but nevertheless a story whose essence will remain.
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