Rita Welty Bourke (Livres)

Rita Welty Bourke Livres

Rita Welty Bourke est une autrice dont l'œuvre explore les complexités de l'expérience humaine avec une voix authentique. Ses récits examinent souvent les couches complexes des relations et les paysages intérieurs de ses personnages. Bourke emploie un style perspicace pour dévoiler les motivations cachées et les dilemmes moraux qui façonnent les vies individuelles. Son écriture encourage les lecteurs à réfléchir sur leurs propres valeurs et leur place au sein de la condition humaine en général.

Islomanes of Cumberland Island

246pages
9 heures de lecture

Lucy Carnegie, wife of industrialist Thomas Carnegie, dreamed of creating on Cumberland Island a home where her children would be safe from the smoke and soot-filled skies over Pittsburgh. Protected by the waters of the Cumberland Sound, the estate she built encompassed nearly the entire island. It was a perfect world, until the outside world intruded. Stone by stone it all came tumbling down. Wild horses now crop the grass around the burnt-out mansion. Rattlesnakes nest among the ruins. A century later, another family comes to Cumberland to walk among the horses and to accept what gifts the island has to offer: solitude, unspoiled wilderness, and wildlife free to roam undisturbed. Returning year after year, Rhamy and her parents explore the island and swim in the ocean. Always, everywhere on the island, the horses graze nearby, unaware of efforts by environmentalists to remove them from the island where they have lived for centuries.