![]() ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. There is more than one history of the world. ![]() They are two seekers, marked by loss, about to share a discover in Fellowes Kraft’s old house in the Faraway Hills. Pierce is on the track of a history he can’t quite believe in Rosie is losing her place in her own story, forgetting why people love one another. There is another history in Kraft’s vivid novels: there are angels and Elizabethan magicians and the boy Shakespeare once upon a time these tales entranced Pierce Moffett too, and teased him with the traces of a very large story indeed… Will her life have the fearful symmetry of the lives led inside the books she reads? Rosie, newly returned to her childhood environs in the Faraways, is reading the historical romances of dead Fellowes Kraft one after another to see her through the hard realities of a divorce. He’s still wondering years later when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him there.ĭoes the world have a plot? It’s what Rosie Rasmussen wants to know, too. Does the world have a secret history, encoded in myth and legend, reflected in the very windings of our brains? Born with the talents to be a real historian, but clinging to a minor teaching job, Pierce Moffett watches the great Parade of the ’60s go by him, and wonders. ![]()
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