James Dunlap
ASIN: B019T6ZKLE
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 291
The world is hostile to lovers and artists, and William is both. A precocious, stoic young folk singer, he has caught the eye of Cassandra, and the two of them have fallen into a whirlwind of passion and youthful love.
But the small Southern city of Cannonsboro, Tennessee, for all its Protestant work ethic, will not suffer an artist. And like the rest of the world, Cannonsboro will try to wear lovers down. If small town life can’t break William for all his persistent dreaming, it will go after the girl he loves.
And so, as Cassandra begins to collapse under the weight of her love for William, the loss of her innocence, the expectations of Cannonsboro, and the manipulations of jealous friends, so also William begins to notice his favorite guitar is cracking and chipping and coming apart. A bohemian artist with no money to repair it, all he can do is watch it decay.
Seeing no ...