The Keeper's Son: A NovelMacmillan, 2007 M04 1 - 352 pages In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyster rakers, and a few lonely sailors of the Coast Guard. Dominating the glorious, raw beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, which for generations has been the responsibility of one family, the Thurlows. |
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... Keeper Jack Thurlow, had gone up to Bodie Island to see the keeper there and inspect a new rotation clockwork design. Keeper Jack had worried for days about leaving Josh alone, not only with the responsibility of lighting the lamp but ...
... Keeper Jack would take you, I'll bet.” “Keeper Jack. There's a name I haven't heard for years,” 19 The Keeper's Son.
A Novel Homer Hickam. “Keeper Jack. There's a name I haven't heard for years,” Dosie said wistfully. “I wondered if ... Jack's son, would offer to take her. But Josh, six years older, had never paid the slightest bit of attention to her ...
... Keeper Jack at all, he'd best come back home and tout de suite, as Doc had put it. Captain Falcon believed that the men who served under him had no family beyond the Comanche so he was reluctant to let Josh go. At last, he had been ...
... Keeper Jack was, in fact, sound as a Yankee dollar and perhaps sounder, considering the Depression that had persisted for nearly twelve years. “You lied to me,” Josh had complained to Doc Folsom shortly afterward, finding the man ...
Contents
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DEATH I SAID | 143 |
BUT THERE THE SILVER ANSWER RANG | 315 |
NOT DEATH BUT LOVE | 403 |
HISTORICAL NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 421 |