description: River City Publishing [Published 2002]. Hard cover, 312 pp. [From front jacket flap] This dramatic tour de force sweeps across north Alabama like a tornado in the spring of 1919. Harold Reed, 16, must travel alone to Decatur to meet his older brother, who s coming home from WWI. On this journey of a lifetime, Harold meets an Irish musician, a Cherokee woman, and a Greek circus performer who travels in a hot-air balloon. Tragedy strikes when the balloon flies into a storm. Is Harold man enough to save someones life? In Decatur, Harold can't stay away from Moccasin Alley, with its tough men and painted ladies. He meets a girl his age whose sad journey into the oldest profession tugs at his heartstrings. But nothing can prepare him for Prudence Longshore, the sophisticated owner of his boardinghouse. Before they know it, they have a romance that's short glorious and forbidden. Who are the hooded horsemen who beat them with whips? How can Harold get revenge? When Harold's brother arrives, something is terribly wrong with him. He reveals his tortured soul in horrid tales of combat. On their trip home, Harold knows it will take another long journey, across the mind and heart, to make his brother well again.
language: English
title: The Long Journey
titlecomplete: The Long Journey
ratings_count: 3
publisher: River City Publishing