Lorelie L. (artgal36) reviewed on 10/23/2006 + 471 more book reviews

Catherine Marshall's final book, one of two novels that she wrote, the first being Christy.Written over 7 years this book is set in the last part of the Great Depression and is the story of Julie Wallace and her family-of adventure and romance, of courage and commitment, of triumph and tragedy in a flood-prone town in Western Pennsylvania. Here too, is the sweep and excitement of events-as the Wallace family newspaper survives its enemies, and the battle lines are drawn between the immigrant laborers and the owners in the 1930s steel town of Alderton, Pennsylvania. The drama of valor and corruption is played out against a background of portentous flash floods, culminating in a catastrophic deluge that breaks the dam and overruns the Alderton countryside and town, carrying before it entire farms, houses, cars, trains, animals and hundreds of hapless people. The Great Flood threatens to destroy everything in its path: Julie, her family and friends, their crusading newspaper, and a community seething with the tensions of small town America coming of age.

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