The caretaker : a novel / Ron Rash.
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Lampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob's wife, Naomi, as well. Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clare is an outcast in Blowing Rock, an outsider, poor and uneducated, who works as a seasonal maid in the town's most elegant hotel. When Naomi elopes with Jacob a few months after her arrival, the marriage scandalizes the community, most of all his wealthy parents who disinherit him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525564218
- ISBN: 0525564217
- ISBN: 9780385544276
- ISBN: 0385544278
- Physical Description: 252 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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Available copies
- 127 of 164 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 3 of 3 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.
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- 7 current holds with 164 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | NC FIC RASH (Text) | 36015001890694 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | NC FIC RASH (Text) | 36015001890702 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | NC FIC RASH (Text) | 36015001890710 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
