Download e-book for iPad: Quilly Hall: An Ode to the Holston Hills by Benjamin W. Farley

By Benjamin W. Farley

Quilly corridor weds fiction and heritage during this robust tale, set within the Nineteen Forties within the Holston Valley close to town of Abingdon, Virginia. Daniel Boone two times camped right here. the city itself served as a rail hub through the Civil warfare and cared for the wounded in its hospitals. The novel's name refers to a statuette whose presence within the outdated home's hallway haunts the tale. Farley's novel lines the lifetime of Thomas Edmonds, an simply son whose father was once killed within the conflict for Guadalcanal, and who's raised via a bevy of relations who regale him with their proud earlier. one in every of his ancestors--a veteran of the conflict of Chickamauga--is speculated to have buried a treasure below a rock within the fabled Knobs above the house position. Foray after foray is fastened looking for this rock and its mystery. a favourite uncle and scruffy farmhands develop into Tom's mentors until eventually he matures, attends Harvard, marries, and leaves for Vietnam.

Farley's sort and his tale are gripping, compelling, and melodic. you'll fall in love with every one personality and grieve as one after the other they cross on.

Benjamin W. Farley is Younts Professor of Philosophy and faith Emeritus at Erskine collage, Due West, South Carolina. as well as his scholarly works, Farley has released 4 books of fiction: Corbin's Rubi-Yacht, Of Time and Eternity, Mercy highway, and The Hero of St. Lo.

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Quilly corridor weds fiction and background during this strong tale, set within the Nineteen Forties within the Holston Valley close to town of Abingdon, Virginia. Daniel Boone two times camped right here. town itself served as a rail hub throughout the Civil warfare and cared for the wounded in its hospitals. The novel's identify refers to a statuette whose presence within the previous home's hallway haunts the tale.

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