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<p><p>an Engaging Novel Of Human Dilemmas That Find Unusual Solutions.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p>in A Moving, Life-affirming Novel Suffused With Ecological Wisdom, A Vermont Ski Resort's Plans For Expansion Collide With Environmentalists Seeking To Preserve A Mountainous Wildlife Habitat And Riverine Ecosystem. Narrator Scott Winston, A Transplanted New York City Lawyer Who Represents The Ski Resort, Switches Allegiance After He And His Nine-year-old Daughter Spot Three Mountain Lions In An Area Targeted For Clearing. Complicating Matters Is The Envy That Scott's Pragmatic Wife, Laura, A Native Vermonter, Feels Toward Her Famed Sister, Patience Avery, A Dowser (water Witch) Who Also Opposes The Ski Resort And Whose Talent For Locating Underground Springs, Missing Persons Or Lost Objects With A Divining Rod Figures Prominently In The Novel's Denouement. The Struggle Between The Developers And Their Opponents Culminates In An Environmental Board Hearing That Has All The Dramatic Excitement Of A Courtroom Trial. With Wit, Insight And Mordant Irony, Bohjalian (past The Bleachers) Charts Scott's Metamorphosis From Rationalistic Materialist And Skeptic To One Who Believes In Higher

Author

Chris Bohjalian, 1962-

Publisher

Touchstone

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451618488

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.57 / 5 (3,223 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13