Christopher Scotton
Hardcover | Pages: 466 pages Rating: 4.09 | 8298 Users | 1448 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Secret Wisdom of the Earth |
| ISBN: | 1455551929 (ISBN13: 9781455551927) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction, and for Goodreads Debut Author (2015) |
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After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar, Kentucky. Medgar is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the "company" and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. When Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that tests Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.List Based On Books The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
| Title | : | The Secret Wisdom of the Earth |
| Author | : | Christopher Scotton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 466 pages |
| Published | : | January 6th 2015 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Contemporary |
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This book has received a great deal of pre-release accolades all well deserved. I suspect, however, the spell it cast over me is a bit different than the one cast for others, mainly due to my own geography and relationship to mining (not in Kentucky and not coal mining, but in southern Arizona where copper mining is king as was quoted recently in our local paper over a mining victory that will scrape away sacred Native American land).This debut is a fabulous coming-of-age story aboutComing in Paperback 1/5/2016! Top 50 Books of 2015"Best Coming -of-Age Debut."THE SECRET WISDOM OF THE EARTH by talented Christopher Scotton, is a highly recommended compelling, multi-layered coming-of-age epic debut, crossing many genres. A deeply-moving story, with a powerful voice of adult Kevin, main protagonist, telling his story--with a "heart of gold", and as big as the mountains; matched perfectly by audio narrator, Robert Petkoff, delivering an award-winning performance! This
Kevin and his mom move to Kentucky to spend the summer with his grandfather after his little brother dies in an accident. Kevin's mother can't cope and his father takes his anger out on everyone for what happened, blaming Kevin. During his stay in Kentucky, Kevin becomes friends with a local boy named Buzzy Fink and is taken under his grandfathers wing. Over the summer some local tensions come to an apex with Buzzy witnessing a hate crime that ends up putting Kevin, Buzzy, and Kevin's
Good, if slightly overlong, coming-of-age tale set in a coal-mining town in Kentucky. Hard to put down - the author does a great job with creating atmosphere and helping you to see the beauty of the Appalachian mountains, as well as the horror of what modern coal mining does to those mountains.A 3.5 for me. The story dragged a little at the end and some of the characters were a bit too archetypical for me, but rounding up for a good story well told.
**I won an uncorrected proof of this novel as part of the Goodreads First Reads giveaway program.**Wow. Wow. Wow. I am absolutely amazed at the caliber of this novel. The writing was absolutely brilliant. The main character and narrator of the story, Kevin, moves to Kentucky for the summer and experiences so much in that short period of time. The characters were all complex and well-thought-out. The story was both heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. The words on the pages seemed all
Wow. I dont know what to say about this book. According to the little author blurb on the ARC he runs a software company and started this book fifteen years ago. Thats a long time to be working on a book. And one might argue that genius percolates slowly but I think there is a tendency sometimes to romanticize a long process of writing and put a fetish on the tortured process that lead to the creation of the book rather than on the work itself (which makes me think of The Tunnel, which in my
I had the delight of seeing Mr. Scotton read from his novel at a publisher's breakfast and then also have dinner with him later on in the same conference. As an author, he is as down to earth as the characters he has crafted in his debut novel. Knowing that the inspiration behind this novel is based on a true life event and that it took Mr. Scotton 15 years to complete the manuscript had me reading the story through a different lens than normal -- one that enhanced the experience. At its
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