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 It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living.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: 9780385544276
- ISBN: 0385544278
- Physical Description: 252 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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- 25 of 128 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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- 20 current holds with 128 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | FIC RAS (Text) | 37810438161241 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 09/18/2024 |
| AMY Bookmobile/Outreach | FIC RAS (Text) | 35555003093905 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Rash (Text) | 31010000828725 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 09/13/2024 |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F RASH (Text) | 39493110088566 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |
| Alexander Main Library | F Rash (Text) | 34269001403444 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | NC F RAS (Text) | 80605003689691 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F RAS (Text) | 50503300482991 | Adult New Fiction | In transit | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | NCFIC RAS (Text) | 31111003033691 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/23/2024 |
| BHM Headquarters Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101742144 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 09/03/2024 |
| Bath Community Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101744124 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
