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The Promise
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781508820024
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 2 2015
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Born in Shaniko, Oregon, in 1915, Walter Pink Butler hasn't lived an easy life. He's endured the loss of his brother to diphtheria, an arson attack on his grandmother's homestead, and the death of his favorite horse Choppy. But none of these events frighten Pink as much as his father.
Oscar Butler is a volatile, often violent man who never truly embraced fatherhood but keeps a possessive eye on Pink. When Pink's mother dies, she begs her mother Mary to raise Pink, a task Mary promises to undertake. Oscar has other ideas.
Kidnapped, wrapped in a blanket, and driven across country, Pink discovers his abductor is his own father. While in his father's erratic care Pink learns to fend for himself amidst privation and abuse, eventually devising a plan to return to Mary-a plan Oscar could ruin at any moment.
Based on the true-life story of author P. L. Butler's father-in-law, The Promise recreates American life in the early 1900s, and the loneliness, love, and determination driving one young man's quest to return to the home where he's safe, loved, and respected.
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