Book for August

Book Choice for August 2011

Book: "The Lonesome Gods"

Author: Louie L'Amour

Meeting Date: Wednesday, August 24th

Book Delivery: I currently have five books, and expect more to come each day (I'm waiting for 6 more). I will deliver books to everyone who was at Olivia's house on Thursday, but if anyone who wasn't there would like a copy, please leave a comment on the blog and I'll find a book for you. The order of delivery will be the order we were sitting at Olivia's house - going clockwise from the door: Carin, Mindy (& Grace - can you share a book?), Jenn, Olivia, Angie, Jackie, Becky (I skipped Joelle because she already has a copy). If I forgot someone, please forgive me and leave a comment on the blog.

Summary: The Lonesome Gods is Louis L'Amour's biggest and most important historical novel to date, a sweeping adventure of the California frontier. Here is the fascinating story of Johannes Verne, a young man left to die by his vengeful grandfather, rescued by outlaws and raised in part by the Indians of the desert. Strengthened by the love of two women -- Miss Nesselrode, whose mysterious past fires her ambitions for the future and Meghan, a willful young beauty -- Verne grows to become a rugged adventurer, a man strong enough to embrace the awesome power of the Palm Springs desert, and bold enough to stake a claim in the bustling world of opportunity that was early-day Los Angeles.

First Paragraph: "I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying. Only last year I had lost my mother. She died longing for that far-off, lovely California where she was born, and of which she never tired of talking. "Warm and sunny," people said when speaking of California, but I knew it as a place where fear lived. Now we were going there. We were crossing the desert to face that fear, and I was afraid."
About L'Amour: Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), however he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), nonfiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies. L'Amour's books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death some of his 105 existing works were in print (89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction) and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers". (From Wikipedia)