In this Mountain

Zusatztext Praise for the Mitford Novels “Karon knits Mitford's small-town characters and multiple story lines into a cozy sweater of a book.”— USA Today “Jan Karon reflects contemporary culture more fully than almost any other living novelist.”— Los Angeles Times “Welcome home! Mitford fans...to Karon's gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives—along with a vividly imagined world.”— People “Karon offers her readers another chance to escape their own world! if just for a while! and live in the town that ‘takes care of its own.’ Her readers say they wish Mitford existed so they could move there.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch Informationen zum Autor Jan Karon Klappentext In her seventh inspirational novel in the bestselling Mitford series! Jan Karon delivers surprises of every kind! including the return of the man in the attic and an ending that no one in Mitford will ever forget. In the little town that's home-away-from-home to millions of readers! life hums along as usual. Dooley looks toward his career as a vet; Joe Ivey and Fancy Skinner fight a haircut price war that takes no prisoners; and Percy steps out on a limb with a risky new menu item at the Main Street Grill. Though Father Tim dislikes change! he dislikes retirement even more. As he and Cynthia gear up for a year-long ministry across the state line! a series of events sends shock waves through his faith-and the whole town of Mitford. Moles again!     Father Tim Kavanagh stood on the front steps of the yellow house and looked with dismay at the mounds of raw earth disgorged upon his frozen March grass.     Holes pocked the lawn, causing it to resemble a lunar surface; berms of dirt crisscrossed the yard like stone walls viewed from an Irish hilltop.     He glanced across the driveway to the rectory, once his home and now his rental property, where the pesky Talpidae were entertaining themselves in precisely the same fashion. Indeed, they had nearly uprooted Hélène Pringle´s modest sign, Lessons for the Piano, Inquire Within ; it slanted drunkenly to the right.     Year after year, he´d tried his hand at mole-removal remedies, but the varmints had one-upped him repeatedly; in truth, they appeared to relish coming back for more, and in greater numbers.     He walked into the yard and gave the nearest mound a swift kick. Blast moles to the other side of the moon, and leave it to him to have a wife who wanted them caught in traps and carted to the country where they might frolic in a meadow among buttercups and bluebells.     And who was to do the catching and carting? Yours truly.     He went inside to his study and called the Hard to Beat Hardware in Wesley, believing since childhood that hardware stores somehow had the answers to life´s more vexing problems.     "Voles!" exclaimed the hardware man. "What most people´ve got is voles, they just think they´re moles!"     "Aha."     "What voles do is eat th´ roots of your plants, chow down on your bulbs an´ all. Have your bulbs bloomed th´ last few years?"     "Why, yes. Yes, they have."     The hardware man sighed. "So maybe it is moles. Well, they´re in there for the grubs, you know, what you have to do is kill th´ grubs."     "I was thinking more about ah, taking out the moles."     "Cain´t do that n´more, state law."     Even the government had jumped on the bandwagon for moles, demonstrating yet again what government had come to in this country. "So. How do you get rid of grubs?"     "Poison."     "I see."     "´Course, some say don´t use it if you got dogs and cats. You got dogs and cats?"     "We do."     He called Dora Pugh at the hardware on Main Street.     "Whirligigs," said Dora. "You know, those little wooden propellerlike things ...

Product details

• Authors: Jan Karon
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2003
• EAN: 9780142002582
• ISBN: 978-0-14-200258-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Mitford Years; Mitford Novel; Mitford Years
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature