Barbara N. (Barbie4) reviewed on 12/13/2006 + 273 more book reviews

Back page..Ginny and Tom had a practical marriage.Tom wants land to call his own,and Ginny knows she can't manage her aging father's farm by herself.They enjoy a mutual attractionthat sometimes grows into a deeply gratifying love,but their obsessions always,inevitable,end up in the way.Tom's obsessions is easy to understand.He's a workaholic who hoards time and money.Ginny is less predictable.That she loses control of her dignity,that she speaks in tongues,that she is (saved) seem to her a blessing and to Tom a disgrace.It's not until Tom lies at the mercy of a disease for which the mountain doctor has no cure that Ginny realizes her truest pleasure.

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