Shadow Ranch: Novel, a
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Book Overview
The impact of four-year-old Spencer's death has rocked the Carpenter family. For Lainie, the loss of her son is unbearable, and now both her marriage and her very sanity are threatened. Her guitar-obsessed, slacker brother Russell isn't doing very well either, and his own love relationship is rapidly coming undone. Then there's Bop, her fierce and crusty 80-year-old grandfather. When he falls in love with a retired stripper, their earthy romance touches each of the Carpenters' lives in unexpected ways.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060928433
ISBN13:9780060928438
Release Date:April 1997
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:384 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Heartwarming, 10 hankie story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Once again, Jo-Ann Mapson wrings out your heart in this story of the Carpenters, Bop the grandfather, Lanie, his granddaughter, trying to recover from depression after losing her 4 year old son to the same heart disease that took her fathers life, and her brother Russell, a hippie throwback facing his own romantic troubles and trying to strum his troubles away on his guitars. None of them have healed from the loss of Spencer, Lanie's 4 year old, until Bop meets an ex-stripper with a heart of gold that helps to heal the rift between grandfather and grandkids. As a mother, I couldn't help but cry while I read the book and felt how painful it would be to lose your child.
A sensitive look at people who find love at different ages
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 28 years ago
Have you ever had a book come along that you were "meant" to read? This past summer I saw Shadow Ranch at my local book store and bought it because I knew that it would be about life in Southern California, where I've always lived. It turned out to be the perfect book for me. I had just started a relationahip with an "older man," and along came this book about love and life and more importantly hope. A mature love affair can be a wonderful thing
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