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Fiction.
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"One of those rare books that is a literary page turner with a language and style similar to the best of Pat Conroy but with a western twist. A new talent has emerged….".
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Two abused children cling like paper in the rain, bleeding saneness and self. One lets go, only to discover the abuse Wall Street deals its Main Street clients is more cunning, if not more brutal, than that doled out at the end of a dirt road. One is stranded at the end of that road.
This is the three-decade saga of Levi and Lam Monroe.
The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags-to-riches family saga that surges from rural squalor to the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the thirty-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons and wields his uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth. Greed and betrayal drive a tense plot involving the FBI, the SEC, and billions of dollars fleeced from brokerage customers and shareholders, while isolation and envy lead to deadly confrontations back home. It is a riveting tale of two disparate worlds joined by one desperate man and his ultimate redemption.
LoriMe: Mr. Steinbeck wrote a gritty family saga embedded in the early to mid part of the 20th Century. Mr. Pack wrote a gritty family saga embedded in the end of the 20th Century. The characters and stories moved me equally. Both are written beautifully.
I have been reading for pleasure for decades. I cannot remember a book I enjoyed more. Very professional writing and it sent my emotions all over the place. In the end, I learned or relearned a lot about people. Bless this author. ( )
This family saga takes you from small town Montana to the expensive suburb of Saratoga, California and spans over 30 years. It depicts the disparate lives of a brother and sister--one who escaped the traumas and trials of his youth and the other who became trapped and haunted by hers. Pack brings his own background from growing up in rural Montana to his success in in the financial world to his first novel. This book is finely crafted around the financial peaks and valleys of the times we live in. I especially enjoyed the references to many places I live near and have visited myself. This finely crafted novel was thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommended. . I hope William C. Pack is busy writing his next one because I am anxiously waiting for it! Skillfully read by Scott Brick. ( )
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Love does not die, not the kind you give nor the kind you receive; whether by neglect or asphyxiation, by poison or trauma, someone has to kill it.
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For the righteous who endure and for those who cannot, for the corageous truth-speakers, for the kind.
Erste Worte
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For her, Roundup, Montana, like Wall Street and Silicon Valley, never really existed in black and white or even sepia tone, though photographic images and personal retrospect may have recorded it that way.
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"Not all wounds that harm us can be cupped in our hand. Â Examined. Often they are not even our own. They are not so plain, so near. Â Some are curtained by mysteries, at once invisible and opaque. Â Like time. And distance. And circumstances of which our own give us scant reference to conceive."
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And as their shiver subsided and the cool settled in, Levi Monroe reached up from his mountain, offering his scars to the bottom of the sky.
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Fiction.
Literature.
"One of those rare books that is a literary page turner with a language and style similar to the best of Pat Conroy but with a western twist. A new talent has emerged….".
HTML:
Two abused children cling like paper in the rain, bleeding saneness and self. One lets go, only to discover the abuse Wall Street deals its Main Street clients is more cunning, if not more brutal, than that doled out at the end of a dirt road. One is stranded at the end of that road.
This is the three-decade saga of Levi and Lam Monroe.
The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags-to-riches family saga that surges from rural squalor to the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the thirty-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One is abandoned to a life of sexual desecration and addiction. The other escapes with his demons and wields his uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth. Greed and betrayal drive a tense plot involving the FBI, the SEC, and billions of dollars fleeced from brokerage customers and shareholders, while isolation and envy lead to deadly confrontations back home. It is a riveting tale of two disparate worlds joined by one desperate man and his ultimate redemption.
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