To Look and Pass
by Taylor Caldwell
2020-12-29 15:57:12
From the bestselling author of Captains and the Kings: The story of a blacksmithâs son, a small town, and a secret dark enough to seal a manâs fate. Raised in a two-room shack behind his fatherâs smithy shop, Dan Hendricks was marked a...
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From the bestselling author of Captains and the Kings: The story of a blacksmithâs son, a small town, and a secret dark enough to seal a manâs fate. Raised in a two-room shack behind his fatherâs smithy shop, Dan Hendricks was marked as an outcast from earliest childhood. The people of South Kenton assumed the poor, gangly boy would become as shiftless and dissolute as his drunkard father. Despite the withering judgment and abuse, Dan manages to remain honest and open-hearted into adulthood. He founders in his attempt to find the tenderness and support a man needs. He cannot be with the woman he truly loves, and the one he marries takes a perverse pleasure in seeing him suffer. At the limits of his endurance, when Dan finally breaks we are left to wonder whether this is a destiny foretold or a senseless tragedy. Full of the force and passion of Taylor Caldwellâs best-known novels, To Look and Pass is a revealing portrait of the dark side of small-town America from an author who ânever falters when it comes to storytellingâ (Publishers Weekly).
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