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Out To Canaan (Mitford Years V4)
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Item Description...
Overview
In the small town of Mitford, rector Father Tim and his lovely wife Cynthia ponder their retirement plans, trying to raise their young charge, Dooley, and find Dooley's missing, abandoned siblings, while a brash mayoral candidate is calling for development and "progress"
Publishers Description
Thousands of readers have come home to Mitford, the little town with the big heart, whose endearing and eccentric residents have become like family members. But now change is coming to the hamlet. Father Tim, the Episcopal rector, and his wife Cynthia are pondering retirement; a brash new mayoral candidate is calling for aggressive development; a suspicious realtor with plans for a health spa is eyeing the beloved house on the hill; and, worst of all, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing. Meanwhile, ordinary people are leading the extraordinary lives that hundreds of thousands of readers have found so inviting and inspiring.Peopled with the lovable cast of characters familiar to so many, and peppered with plenty of new and colorful personalities, Out to Canaan is filled to the brim with the mysteries and miracles that make everyday life worth living, and that make Mitford one of the most memorable small towns in recent literature. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 342
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 5.5" Height: 8"
Weight: 0.55 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Mar 1, 1998
Publisher Penguin Group USA
ISBN 0140265686
EAN 9780140265682
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 | Out to Canaan Jan 28, 2007 |
| This is a glorious book. Good clean reading for anyone. Wonderful story. | | | | Jan Karon's books the best I've read Jan 9, 2007 |
| Regardless of the type of reading you like to do, you can meet all of these things in one Jan Karon Mitford Series books. It is all around, down home, just like your home regardless of what it is like, and comforting to read. Exciting at times, yes, but so nicely done. I am so glad for the day I picked up that first book and now I have them all in the Mitford Series. | | |  | Rehabilitation of people from the creek over-simplified Sep 13, 2006 |
I LOVE the Mitford series and this one was especially good. If you want to know what's good about this book (and there is much that is good), read the reviews with 4 and 5 stars.
I hate to bring it up, but Ms. Karon is hopelessly naive in the unrealistic rehabilitation of so many people from the creek. For those of you who have not read any of the Mitford books yet, the creek in Mitford is a very poor area and many of the people living there are drug and alcohol addicted. Needless to say, abusive relationships abound there.
In the 4th book of this series, the author continues to rehabilitate people from the creek. For example, two older children from the creek have been taken in by local towns people. One by the main character (the Episcopal priest) and another by a doctor's wife. The author makes clear that these older children were both severely abused until their adoption and YET they seem to make the adjustment to foster home with little more than an occasional scuffle after school. Want to know what really happens to children who have been severely abused when they finally get put in a stable home? They have to go through extensive therapy and even then they often descend into promiscuity, drug abuse, and either become abusive themselves or become victims of abuse. Yes, these children can be saved but it is a long, hard effort and many children never fully recover.
In addition, Karon has several alcoholics now completely recovered and living productive lives in Mitford. How does this happen? It's not quite clear. They decide they don't want to drink any more and they just don't. No therapy and no AA. They become people that can handle money well, are well-adjusted, and are hard workers. Again, what really happens? Even people that successfully give up drugs or alcohol usually need some kind of support like AA for years. Further, just taking away the addiction does not reveal this butterfly in a person waiting to come out. No, there are usually deep-seated reasons as to why a person becomes addicted and they have to be dealt with. Many addicts come from very dysfunctional backgrounds. Recovery is a process and does not happen in days, nor weeks, nor months. It takes years.
If Jan Karon were writing realistically, Cynthia and Timothy would come home to their house one day to find Harley (the former alcoholic they had taken in as a border) drunk and passed out in their kitchen. The house would be a shambles with many articles stolen because he needed money to feed his addiction.
Unfortunately, there are several other examples in this book where Karon obviously, obviously does not understand people who are broken by abuse and addiction. Again, these people CAN be helped and saved, but it's a long, hard road. | | | | Wonderful! Jul 21, 2006 |
| Another wonderful book by Jan! As usual, I couldn't lay it down 'till I was finished. Wish she would continue the series. | | | | Out to Canaan (The Mitfrod Years) Jul 1, 2006 |
I now have all the Mitford series.. I only needed three which I received from this site. Was VERY pleased with the delivery. Would definetly order books again. They were in very good shape,like new..
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