Cold Train Coming

Larry Barkdull

ISBN 10: 1590382900 / ISBN 13: 9781590382905

Published by Shadow Mountain, 2004

About this Item

A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cold Train Coming
• Publisher: Shadow Mountain
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590382900
• ISBN 13: 9781590382905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

IT’S 1942 AND AMERICA IS AT WAR. A sense of peril and wartime shortages have reached even the small town of Fort Benton, Montana, where 13-ear-old Ben Colby is growing up. Ben is in love for the first time, with Ellie Beck, a high-school beauty who is three years older than Ben. But that’s not the only dilemma Ben is facing. When he learns that one of his mother’s old boyfriend has moved to town, he worries about what that might mean for his parents’ seemingly shaking marriage. Everyone is nearly frantic about the polio epidemic that is raging through the town. In the midst of all this, Ben tries to befriend a stray sheepdog that no one has ever been able to win over – a dog that remain fiercely loyal to its previous master.

Reminiscent of A River Runs through It and Montana 1948, Cold Train Coming capture the essence of a simpler time in American history, a setting in which a boy struggles to understand a looming adult world that is overwhelming and mysterious. Filled with humor and emotion, Cold Train Coming is a nostalgic, coming-of-age story that will take you back to the bittersweet days of adolescence, when summer was endless, first love was both thrilling and frustrating, and the future was as exciting as it was uncertain.

About the Author

Larry Barkdull has been a longtime publisher of books, music, and magazines. He helped found This People Magazine and for many years owned Sonos Music Resources and Keepsake Books. He has worked for a variety of clients in writing, editing, and publishing their works. He is the author The Mourning Dove and The Touch of the Master s Hand.