{"product_id":"children-of-the-wild-a-novel-isbn-9780063488571","title":"Children of the Wild: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e comes a gorgeous, haunting love story set in the Virginia mountains and on the battlefields of World War I France.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEwer’s Rock, Virginia, 1917. Roy Young is restless, eager to leave this isolated rural valley for university and return with the technical knowledge to modernize his family’s farm and bring them properly into the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Hatton, the minister’s daughter and Roy’s best friend since childhood, knows that both Roy and the town expect them to marry. But Samantha, a daring and ambitious young woman, hungers for more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove them on the mountain, tending to a lost herd of cattle, is silent Ennis Duke, the mysterious wild boy whose arrival in the valley will upend Ewer’s Rock’s understanding of itself and its place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin a year, the lives of these three young people will be dramatically transformed. America has joined the Great War, and Roy and Ennis feel duty-bound to join the fight. In the crucible of conflict, thousands of miles from the familiarity of home, the two men forge a fierce bond. Meanwhile, back in Virginia, Samantha’s love and courage endure unthinkable sacrifice in a corner of the world fractured by violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the spare and exquisite prose and the profound insight that made \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e a landmark work of American fiction, Kevin Powers illuminates the savage, complex, and timeless bonds of loyalty, honor, and heroism. \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e captures what it means to be human in times of loss—and how, even in darkness, the light of friendship and love endures.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Kevin Powers has conjured out of the mists of the Virginia mountains a novel of extraordinary beauty and power. \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e is about many things--the natural world, family, friendship, money, and war, most definitely war--but ultimately it's about the endless ways love finds to break us and make us. Powers can \u003ci\u003ewrite\u003c\/i\u003e; we've all known that since his era-defining debut \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Birds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Wild \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates his continuing rare mastery on every page.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBen Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and Devil Makes Three\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Powers reinvents himself yet again. This time with a love story set at the dawn of the twentieth century, in which the son of a powerful family and his penniless best friend seek the hand of an enchanting young woman. Taking us from the lush mountains of Virginia to the battlefields of France, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of the best works of Michael Ondaatje and Margaret Atwood.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilipp Meyer, author of American Rust and The Son\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The author, himself a Virginian and a combat veteran, skillfully weaves threads of love, friendship, and senseless death into a compelling and often emotional tale where the price of love is paid with sorrow. A deeply affecting novel.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus (Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48587988697317,"sku":"NP9780063488571","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063488571.jpg?v=1773959953","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/children-of-the-wild-a-novel-isbn-9780063488571","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}