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The Horseman's Tale

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A hypnotic narrative that twists through both light and dark asjournaling therapy unlocks the troubled memories of a lonely veteran.Haunted by the death of his son ininfancy and the love of his life many years later, Jake Montgomery grudginglyagrees to a form of "journal therapy" that allows him to expose and confrontthe sharp, insistent pain that he regularly buries with rage and scotch andtelevision. As he writes, secrets tightly bound within him graduallyunwind--first in racially segregated Ocala, Florida, in the 1950s, where hisbest childhood friend was a Puerto Rican jockey, then in Ireland, when a summeras a stable apprentice ushers in a new and all-consuming passion. Jake relives his experiments withfree love in the 1960s, and is embroiled once more in choices of life and deathon the battlefields of Vietnam, and later, as undercover intelligence officerin the countries of Eastern Europe. What begins as a journey chroniclingyouthful discovery spirals swiftly into spaces where loss overwhelms and thepath chosen is one of ruthlessness and revenge. It is the birth, life, anddeath of a special horse that gives Jake a sense of purpose in his desperatesearch for a reason to carry on.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781646012657
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Udgivet:
  • 17. september 2024
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 16. januar 2025
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A hypnotic narrative that twists through both light and dark asjournaling therapy unlocks the troubled memories of a lonely veteran.Haunted by the death of his son ininfancy and the love of his life many years later, Jake Montgomery grudginglyagrees to a form of "journal therapy" that allows him to expose and confrontthe sharp, insistent pain that he regularly buries with rage and scotch andtelevision. As he writes, secrets tightly bound within him graduallyunwind--first in racially segregated Ocala, Florida, in the 1950s, where hisbest childhood friend was a Puerto Rican jockey, then in Ireland, when a summeras a stable apprentice ushers in a new and all-consuming passion. Jake relives his experiments withfree love in the 1960s, and is embroiled once more in choices of life and deathon the battlefields of Vietnam, and later, as undercover intelligence officerin the countries of Eastern Europe. What begins as a journey chroniclingyouthful discovery spirals swiftly into spaces where loss overwhelms and thepath chosen is one of ruthlessness and revenge. It is the birth, life, anddeath of a special horse that gives Jake a sense of purpose in his desperatesearch for a reason to carry on.

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