The Journey Home
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This timeless story of homelessness introduces two sisters traveling on the orphan train West, fighting to stay together and find a place where they belong.
Isabelle Holland Knihy
16. červen 1920 – 9. únor 2002
Isabelle C. Hollandová byla plodná autorka, jejíž rozsáhlé dílo zahrnuje gotické romány, dospělé detektivky a romantické thrillery. Kromě toho se věnovala psaní pro děti a mládež, čímž se její tvorba dotýkala širokého spektra čtenářů. Její příběhy se často zabývaly složitými a citlivými tématy, někdy se dotýkaly i obvinění z pedofilie, což jí dodávalo na hloubce a provokativnosti. Hollandová prokazovala mimořádnou schopnost zaujmout různé čtenářské skupiny svým jedinečným stylem a vyprávěním.
Charles didn't know much about life...until he met The Man Without a face... "I'd never had a friend, and he was my friend; I'd never really, except for a shadowy memory, had a father, and he was my father. I'd never known an adult I could communicate with or trust, and I communicated with him all the time, whether I was actually talking to him or not. And I trusted him...." Fourteen-year-old Charles desperately wants two things: a father and a way out. Little love has come his way until the summer he befriends a mysterious scarred man named Justin McLeod, nicknamed "The Man Without a Face." Charles enlists McLeod's help as tutor for the St. Matthew's school entrance exams, his ticket away from the unpleasant restrictions of his home life. But more important than anything he could get out of a book, that summer Charles learns from McLeod a stirring life lesson about the many faces of love.
