Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Watcher: Like Sweet Bells Jangled

The Watcher: Like Sweet Bells Jangled

Crowe, Thomas Rain

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1511466456
ISBN13: 9781511466455
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 24 2015
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
This 19th century Romeo & Juliet story is set in a Shaker community in Kentucky in the mid-1800s during the antebellum Protestant Revival-up to and including the Civil War years--which is a very lively, exotically colorful and eccentric period of Shaker history known as the Era of Manifestation (referring to the manifestation of spirits). While this is not a Shaker novel (or genre Christian fiction) or a standard Romance novel, it is, rather, Historical fiction and uses the Kentucky Shaker community (based on the Shaker community of Pleasant Hill) as a backdrop to create the book's major conflict-which is that between the Shakers and their neighbors in the town of Herodsville. Asher, a young poet and the son of an evangelical Baptist preacher from Herodsville, falls in love with Kitt, a rare beauty and revered member of the celibate Shaker community of Pleasant Grove. When this covert love affair is discovered by Shaker elder Wilford Ranks, (The Watcher), it changes not only his life, but profoundly affects the lives and romance of the two young people he watches from his window in the wall of the Meeting House. The window in the wall is the ongoing metaphor for the events and conflicts which follow, which begin with The Watcher (Ranks) as a Big Brother figure through whose eyes we witness the spectacle(s) of Shaker life and its inevitable demise.

Also in

Historical Fiction

View All