The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish–Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood—enlightened and enlivened at various points by an unforgettable triumvirate of intoxicating women—he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers’ rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as well as with the working people who made their wealth possible. (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Altantic Monthly Press, 400 pages
05/01/2004
$24.00

ISBN: 0802117732

Fiction
General Literature & Fiction

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