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Table of Contents
About The Book
A few days before Noble Norfleet's eighteenth birthday, his family suffers a violent catastrophe. The sole survivor, Noble throws himself into a reckless affair with his Spanish teacher, whose husband is fighting in Vietnam. When Noble graduates, he enlists as well and, while serving as an army medic, experiences a mysterious vision that seems tied to uncanny events in his recent past. Not until thirty years later -- after a life short on friends and troubled by a compulsion to worship women's bodies -- is Noble challenged to rethink the decades-old mystery of his family tragedy. Faced with an ominous choice, Noble finally comes to accept an enormous duty he's long tried to ignore. Soon, perhaps for the first time, his future seems hopeful.
Product Details
- Publisher: Scribner (March 22, 2011)
- Length: 320 pages
- ISBN13: 9780743233934
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Raves and Reviews
USA Today There's a tug between wanting to finish it and not wanting it to end. It's that good.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Noble Norfleet burns with the steady flame of its author's considerable imaginative energy...[an] absorbing novel.
David Finkle San Francisco Chronicle Reynolds Price...insists on celebrating humanity, no matter how quirky. Noble Norfleet is his latest hard-nosed, warm-hearted endorsement.
Independent Weekly Reynolds Price considers the questions of how we go about fulfilling our hunger for direction, for connectedness, for God, and comes up, fittingly, with a new testament of love, faith and forgiveness.
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