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The year is 1886 and old Samuel Jones, broken in body and soul, has ridden hard to reach his daughter’s remote New Mexico ranch—ridden hard so that he can die there. But Maggie Baldwin, grown and with children of her own, wants nothing to do with this man who abandoned her and her mother thirty years earlier to live with the Indians. Nothing, that is, until renegade Apaches shoot Maggie’s husband and kidnap her oldest daughter. Then she has no choice but to ride with the dying father she detests in a desperate attempt to rescue her child before the girl disappears forever into the vast twilight land of old Mexico.
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Thomas Eidson is the author of four previous novels including the award-winning St Agnes' Stand. In 2004, Ron Howard made his novel The Last Ride into a feature film, The Missing. Thomas Eidson lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Samuel Jones, a 76-year-old Indian warrior, is dying. As his last act, he wants to make amends with Maggie Baldwin, the daughter he deserted more than 30 years ago when he left to live with the Indians. But even in 1886, New Mexico life is dangerous. Soon after Samuel arrives at the Baldwin ranch, renegade Apaches severely wound Maggie's husband and kidnap her daughter, Lily. The locals who set out after Lily are caught in an ambush and decimated, forcing Maggie and Samuel to form an alliance to pursue and reclaim Lily. Samuel, despite his age and illness, is still a formidable warrior, but he knows his magic is dwindling rapidly. He must summon all his faith to reunite his daughter's family. Similarly, Maggie must overcome her dogmatic Christian faith and her personal bitterness to forgive and understand this man who abandoned her but is now willing to die for her. An outstanding adventure tale, this second entry in an outstanding western trilogy--St. Agnes' Stand opened the set--offers a thought-provoking take on the enduring if often cliche{‚}d notion of "family values." Arguing eloquently that love can transcend time and pain and bitterness when strengthened by acceptance and faith, Eidson's epic, like Lonesome Dove, deserves a readership well beyond the boundaries of its genre. Wes Lukowsky
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Condition: Muy bueno. : En 1886, Samuel Jones, un anciano destrozado en cuerpo y alma, cabalga arduamente para llegar al rancho remoto de su hija en Nuevo México, con el único deseo de morir allí. Sin embargo, Maggie Baldwin, ya adulta y con hijos propios, no quiere saber nada de este hombre que la abandonó a ella y a su madre treinta años atrás para vivir con los indios. Todo cambia cuando apaches renegados asesinan al esposo de Maggie y secuestran a su hija mayor. Entonces, no tiene más remedio que cabalgar con el padre moribundo que detesta en un intento desesperado por rescatar a su hija antes de que la niña desaparezca para siempre en la vasta tierra crepuscular del viejo México. Una historia de redención y reencuentro familiar en el duro y salvaje oeste americano. EAN: 9780140257779 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: The Last Ride Autor: Thomas Eidson Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2024-11-11-86191cbf