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Subtitle: a novel
By: Kevin Brennan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Morrow
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Landscape photography -- Fiction.; Remarried people -- Fiction.; Divorced fathers -- Fiction.; Photographers -- Fiction.; Deserts -- Fiction.; California -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "As a young man, Bill Argus abandoned his wife, their young son, and his family's dairy farm in the Sonoma County hamlet of Pianto. Now sixty-three, the once-famous photographer is overcome with the need to find forgiveness and redemption from those he left behind. Journeying back to the small, dreary California town, he is disoriented to find a ragged skeleton of the boyhood farm he remembered and his family unmoved and indifferent to his return.

Bill's awkward homecoming is reported through the eyes of his second wife, Nora - twenty years his junior - who has her own troubled family history. Her father, much like Bill, deserted his family when Nora was just a toddler, never to return; and she has been estranged from her mother for more than half of her life.

Bearing witness to Bill's reception by his brother, aunt, and his long-abandoned wife spark in Nora a revisiting of her complicated history, and soon she, too, sets off on a spiritual journey to explore her own parts unknown."--BOOK JACKET.