A garden to keep

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Book

Title:

A garden to keep

Author:

Turner, Jamie Langston.

ISBN:

9780764221545

9780739429532

9780764202995

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

415 pages ; 22 cm.

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Contents:

Against Thy Mandolin -- Home of Long Tides -- Whose Hands Shipwreck Vases -- The Edge of the Receding Glacier -- Where a Garden Once Was Kept -- Three Foggy Mornings and One Raing Day -- How Lucky, Little Tree -- Sorrowful Noise Overhead -- Like a Map of All the World -- Great Epanse of Green -- Under the Gypsy Moon -- And Buried In Deep, Deep -- How Dark the Hemlock Wreath -- From Silver Aslant -- One Far Fierce Hour -- The Blood Howing Back -- In Shadowy Silent Distance -- With Low Sounds by the Shore -- The Birth of the Simple Light -- Free of Our Bridges -- In a Room With Paintings -- While the Sun Walked High -- What Scent of Old Wood -- Range After Range of Mountains -- The Colored Night Around -- The Trumpet of a Prophecy -- Across the Glittering Sea -- A Thousand Days of Words -- Sweet Impossible Blossom -- The Fall of Your Soft Song -- Every Farthing of the Cost -- The Touch of Earthly Years -- Bringer of New Things.

Summary:

When betrayal strikes at the heart of her very existence, Elizabeth Landis retraces the path of her life and her marriage, discovering along the way memories both painful to the touch and a joy to embrace.

Subject(s):

Church attendance -- Fiction.

Women teachers -- Fiction.

Married women -- Fiction.

Adultery -- Fiction.

South Carolina -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

South Carolina -- Fiction.

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Summary

Suddenly alone and looking for the point when her husband's betrayal began, Abby traces the path of her marriage and is caught off guard by the realization of her own past failures. Original.

Author Notes

Jamie Langston Turner, author of the acclaimed novels Some Wildflower in My Heart and A Garden to Keep(a Christy Award winner), has been a teacher for more than twenty-five years at both the elementary and college level. She has written textbook materials as well as stories, articles, plays, and poems for a variety of periodicals including Faith for the Family, Kids, Moody, Plays, The Christian Reader, and Living With Children.

Born in Mississippi, Jamie has lived in the South all her life, currently residing with her husband and son in South Carolina, where she teaches Creative Writing and Poetry Writing at Bob Jones University. Jamie is an active member of Heritage Bible Church. Her hobbies include reading, tennis, and needlework.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Turner's fans will be pleased with this offering, another pastel-covered trip to smalltown South Carolina, to the Church of the Open Door and to the trials and tribulations of family life. The novel is narrated by Elizabeth Landis, a polite but plain substitute teacher in her late 40s. On February 18, Elizabeth's life takes two dramatic turns. With the help of Margaret Tuttle (whom readers will remember from Turner's Some Wildflower in My Heart), Elizabeth becomes a born-again Christian. A few hours later, she discovers that her husband is having an affair. Readers follow along over the next few months as Elizabeth's faith deepens and she and her husband gradually repair their marriage. The novel has many of the strengths and weaknesses of Turner's earlier books. Like Margaret in Wildflower, Elizabeth is impressively and a bit implausibly well-educated, quoting poetry at the drop of a hat and frequently drawing parallels between her own life and those of the characters in middle-brow novels of the 1990s. (Readers can assume that Garden is, in this respect, a roman ? clef - Turner teaches creative writing and poetry at Bob Jones University.) And this book, like her others, is too long by about 100 pages. For all its flaws, Garden contributes much to the booming subgenre of Christian literary fiction: the characters are well-developed, and their struggles are real, not saccharine. This is proof that a faithful Christian witness can come packaged in a quality novel. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Part 1
1. Against Thy Mandolin	p. 11
2. Home of Long Tides	p. 23
3. Whose Hands Shipwreck Vases	p. 36
4. The Edge of the Receding Glacier	p. 47
5. Where a Garden Once Was Kept	p. 59
6. Three Foggy Mornings and One Raing Day	p. 70
7. How Lucky, Little Tree	p. 82
8. Sorrowful Noise Overhead	p. 93
9. Like a Map of All the World	p. 108
Part 2
10. Great Epanse of Green	p. 123
11. Under the Gypsy Moon	p. 136
12. And Buried In Deep, Deep	p. 148
13. How Dark the Hemlock Wreath	p. 161
14. From Silver Aslant	p. 173
15. One Far Fierce Hour	p. 185
16. The Blood Howing Back	p. 197
17. In Shadowy Silent Distance	p. 209
Part 3
18. With Low Sounds by the Shore	p. 225
19. The Birth of the Simple Light	p. 238
20. Free of Our Bridges	p. 250
21. In a Room With Paintings	p. 262
22. While the Sun Walked High	p. 273
23. What Scent of Old Wood	p. 283
24. Range After Range of Mountains	p. 294
25. The Colored Night Around	p. 305
26. The Trumpet of a Prophecy	p. 318
Part 4
27. Across the Glittering Sea	p. 331
28. A Thousand Days of Words	p. 341
29. Sweet Impossible Blossom	p. 354
30. The Fall of Your Soft Song	p. 367
31. Every Farthing of the Cost	p. 380
32. The Touch of Earthly Years	p. 394
33. Bringer of New Things	p. 404

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