Indeed, some may consider her interpretation too human and take offense at her detailing of moral indiscretions committed by the young Bonhoeffer. (Norton, 487 pp.)ĭenise Giardina’s novel tells the story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a way that deftly humanizes him and brings him to life. Denise Giardina creates, with brutal honesty and painful insight, a carefully woven narrative tapestry and a generational saga that builds to a climax as shattering as any in recent American fiction.By Denise Giardina, Saints and Villains. Tom Kolwecki, a Jesuit seminarian who arrives in Blackberry Creek as a Vista Volunteer, is powerfully attractive to her, but the pull of his religious vocation and the accidents of history and tragedies of nature render their unions stillborn. And, like her mother, Jackie falls passionately in love with a young man with whom a conventional relationship is not possible. As Dillon fought, and was imprisoned, for union-organizing, Jackie, as a journalist, fights against injustice by exposing American Coals methodical destruction of the community. Rachels daughter, Jackie, carries Dillons activism and passion into the next generation. He in turns enlists to fight in World War II, and, upon his return, against the big-time coal company and the dark shadow of destruction it casts across Blackberry Creek. Rachel consigns herself to a loveless marriage and careful avoidance of Dillon. Best friends as children, as they grow older they realize, and are torn apart by, their forbidden love for each other. Book Synopsis At the heart of this novel, which spans from the 1930s through the 1980s, is principled, passionate Dillon Freeman and his more conventional cousin Rachel Honaker. The story is a superb saga of three people whose lives entwine in love and politics, in Depression era West Virginia, in the shadow of dying mines and the doomed union movement. About the Book The author of the successful Storming Heaven returns to Appalachia for her acclaimed new novel-winner of the 1992 Lillian Smith Book Award of the Southern Regional Council.
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