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Drowning Ruth Cover Image Book

Drowning Ruth / Christina Schwarz.

Schwarz, Christina. (Author).

Summary:

Apparently buckling under the strain of caring for wounded soldiers, Amanda retreats from her nursing job at the close of the First World War to her family's farm on a lake in rural Wisconsin, hoping that life with her beloved sister Mattie and her niece, three-year-old Ruth, will restore her. But very soon Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge; she has carried her troubles with her. Months later, Mattie's husband Carl returns from the war to find his wife mysteriously drowned and his daughter being raised by prickly and possessive Amanda. What happened the night Mattie died? For years the consequences of that event reverberate, and the truth, when it is finally revealed, is both dramatic and extraordinarily moving.-- Adapted from Amazon

Record details

  • ISBN: 038549971X
  • ISBN: 0385502532
  • ISBN: 9780747264651
  • Physical Description: viii, 338 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2000]

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Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 16 45203.

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Subject: Oprah's book club.
Drowning victims > Fiction.
Farm life > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Sisters > Fiction.
Wisconsin > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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  • 68 of 70 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Sandhill Regional Library.

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