Ebook {Epub PDF} The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux

The Clearing. Last Updated on May 5, , by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: Tim Gautreaux’s adventure-filled story begins when Randolph Aldridge, younger son of a Pittsburgh lumber magnate.  · In a literal and figurative sense Tim Gautreaux’s book is a journey tale. In the ’s, two brothers from Pennsylvania travel to the Nimbus lumber mill in the cypress swampland of Louisiana; one by the most direct route possible and the other by way of Kansas and points west. Their figurative journeys also differ/5.  · The Clearing by Tim Gautreaux. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, ,

The Clearing A Novel. Tim Gautreaux. • 8 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world. In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back. Born and raised in Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University. His work has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and Zoetrope, as well as the O. Henry and Best American short-story bltadwin.ru first novel, The Next Step in the Dance, won the Southeastern Booksellers Award, and he has also published two collections of short fiction. The Clearing I selected this book because I had enjoyed so much, The Missing, by the same author, Tim Gautreaux. The Clearing is an earlier book, and in writing terms, I felt that The Missing was a slightly better book, but only because the author had not quite got into his stride. Despite this, I was not disappointed.

About This Book. The Clearing is set deep in the Louisiana swamp in , in the isolated town of Nimbus, a place hard to get to and even harder to get out of alive. Nimbus is a raw place, filled with snakes, alligators, hard-fighting mill workers, and bountiful cypress trees. About This Book. The Clearing is set deep in the Louisiana swamp in , in the isolated town of Nimbus, a place hard to get to and even harder to get out of alive. Nimbus is a raw place, filled with snakes, alligators, hard-fighting mill workers, and bountiful cypress trees. There is no church, no school, no civilizing influence of any kind. In a tale full of raw emotion as supple as a saw blade," The Clearing is a mesmerizing journey into the trials that define men's souls. About the Author. Born and raised in Louisiana, Tim Gautreaux is Writer-in-Residence at Southeastern Louisiana University.