ASIN: B00GQTSSJE
Publisher: George J. Leonard
Pages: 279
“The turning point in my youth, which gave me the direction of my life, was the murder of my elementary school teacher, Birdsall Snow; which I, as a boy, witnessed.Mr. Snow was the gentlest soul I had ever met; and he died a hero. No one had expected it of him. The town, and my parents in particular, considered Snow a fool—indeed, a clown . . . He was a failed priest; he spoke with an English accent from a boyhood in private English schools; he seemed to love nothing but teaching and his students.It wasn’t just Mr. Snow dying that changed me… It was who Mr. Snow was and the way he died that so changed me. It was seeing such an absurd, unheroic person accept so brave a death.”In the tradition of To Kill A Mockingbird, comes the new novel from the author of The Ice Cathedral (“SUPERB…BRILLIANT…SUSPENSEFUL” New York Sunday Times Book Review, “GENIUS” Washington Post “MARVELLOUS” Boston ...
