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Chargement... The Cherry Harvest: A Novel (édition 2015)par Lucy Sanna (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Cherry Harvest par Lucy Sanna
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  mcpl.wausau | Sep 25, 2017 |    ) JeanetteSkwor | Jul 9, 2017 |  Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.Thus begins the lies and deceptions that will ultimately destroy the family. One of the prisoners, a math teacher back in Germany, is asked to tutor the teenage daughter Kate. Kate is eager to escape the farm and go to college. She is quickly becoming a young woman and has romantic notions. And when the Christiansen son Ben returns from as an injured and very bitter war veteran their world explodes. Beautifully written by Ms. Sanna the story moves quickly and smoothly taking you back in time to the Wisconsin farmlands. A couple of twists and turns left me scrambling to rethink my anticipated ending. This is a book definitely worth reading. Thank you to LibraryThing and William Morrow publishers for the advance copy. (  ) BettyTaylor56 | Jun 28, 2016 | Book starts out in WI and the crop needs to be picked and the government will be bringing in German prisoners (POW's) to pick the crop and work in other factories in the state. Kate and Josie are teen girlfriends and Kate has to tell her friend about the POW's that are coming. Josie's parents, Remy and Marta run the lighthouse and the war rations don't effect them as they do the other islanders. Kate's mom, Charlotte can knit and barters food from her knitted wares. Enjoyed hearing of the patterns she uses and have jotted down a few notes to try them for myself. Story goes back in time to when Kate was growing up and the adventures her father took her to in the city to experience the city life and shows. Loved hearing of the harvest as we've just had the tree company in and they removed 2 30 year old pine trees and leveled the yew hedges. So fascinating the tools and maneuvers they used. Like quotes from poets as Tom recites to Charlotte. Story follows all the characters relationships during the war. The parents get Clay-one of the German POW's to tutor her in math as she's going to go to college. Tragedies occur and also good times when the family is reunited. So many broken dreams. I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( ) jbarr5 | May 23, 2016 | Parts of the story are so well done; parts are not well thought out, and some things are not realistic. I enjoyed the descriptions of Wisconsin and Door County, and I came to care about some of the characters. But Kate's relationship with Clay is pretty unrealistic. We need to know more about Charlotte to understand her actions. I would have liked to get to know Thomas better; I don't think his character was as well-developed as it should have been. So, mixed feelings. But I will say, I enjoyed the book, and it held my interest. I kept reading because I wanted to see what happened. But the final chapters disappointed me. (  ) cherybear | Mar 30, 2016 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: A memorable coming-of-age story and love story, laced with suspense, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences. The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With food rationed and money scarce, Charlotte struggles to keep her family well fed. Her teenage daughter, Kate, raises rabbits to earn money for college and dreams of becoming a writer. Her husband, Thomas, struggles to keep the farm going while their son, and most of the other local men, are fighting in Europe. When their upcoming cherry harvest is threatened, strong-willed Charlotte helps persuade local authorities to allow German war prisoners from a nearby camp to pick the fruit. But when Thomas befriends one of the prisoners, a teacher named Karl, and invites him to tutor Kate, the implications of Charlotte's decision become apparentâ??especially when she finds herself unexpectedly drawn to Karl. So busy are they with the prisoners that Charlotte and Thomas fail to see that Kate is becoming a young woman, with dreams and temptations of her ownâ??including a secret romance with the son of a wealthy, war-profiteering senator. And when their beloved Ben returns home, bitter and injured, bearing an intense hatred of Germans, Charlotte's secrets threaten to explode their world Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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