Nickel Mountain

De: John Gardner

Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray

John Gardner's most poignant novel of improbable love.

At the heart of John Gardner's Nickel Mountain is an uncommon love story: When at 42, the obese, anxious, and gentle Henry Soames marries seventeen-year-old Callie Wells - who is pregnant with the child of a local boy - it is much more than years which define the gulf between them. But the beauty of this audiobook is the gradual revelation of the bond that develops as this unlikely couple experiences courtship and marriage, the birth of a son, isolation, forgiveness, work, and death in a small Catskill community in the 1950s. The plot turns on tragic events - they might be accidents or they might be acts of will - involving a cast of rural eccentrics that includes a lonely amputee veteran, a religious hysteric (thought by some to be the devil himself), and an itinerant "Goat Lady." Questions of guilt, innocence, and even murder are eclipsed by deeds of compassion, humility, and redemption, and ultimately, by Henry Soames' quiet discovery of grace.

©1963, 1973 John Gardner (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

A beautiful story, elegantly rendered

This is a delicate, slow and thoughtful book about real humans. The reader captures all the heart felt empathy of the author and is faithful to the lovely and moving browse.

Good story & storytelling.

I enjoyed this story from a farming area in
upstate New York. The characters become very real and endear themselves to the reader.
John Garner was quite a good storyteller, kind and smart. Going to read his other work, "Sunlight Dialogues" now.
Thank you for the terrific audiobook narration.