Heading out to wonderful

Goolrick, Robert, 1948-2013

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Summary

It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, back from war in Europe, shows up in the sleepy town of Brownsburg, Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. Charlie should have turned around and walked back the other way, for what follows the most passionate and tragic story of a forbidden love affair will threaten to destroy everything and everyone in its path. Told through the eyes of Sam, a young boy in the town whose world is changed forever by the events of that single year, this is a haunting, heart-stopping novel of obsession and love gone terribly wrong in a place where once upon a time such things could happen.