The Missing is the story of a man fighting to redeem himself, of parents coping with horrific loss with only a whisper of hope to sustain them, of others for whom kidnapping is either only a job or a dream come true. The suspense—and the complicated web of violence that eventually links Sam to complete strangers—is relentless, urgently engaging and, ultimately, profoundly moving, the finest . · The Missing. by. Tim Gautreaux. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. The author of The Clearing (“the finest American novel in a long, long time”—Annie Proulx) now surpasses himself with a story whose range and cast of characters is even broader, with the fate of a stolen child looming throughout/5. The Missing Mar 3, by Tim Gautreaux. () $ A masterful novel set in s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam’s watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past.
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux. Tim Gautreaux has managed to write a fine novel about a child's abduction without making it too upsetting. This isn't to say that the book is lightweight; nor. Tim Gautreaux's The Missing is written beautifully, full of evocative prose, and Southern dialect. He has an original story to tell set in the mid 's on a riverboat that takes people on dance cruises, with the man character, Sam Simoneaux, working on the boat while at the same time looking for a stolen child in and round the ports where they dock. 5 quotes from Tim Gautreaux: 'You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid." -The Missing', 'I flunked out that semester, but I got my money's worth learning about people that don't have hearts no bigger than bird shot.', and 'Father Jim was sent to jail in a special West Virginia prison filled with politicians.
The Missing is the story of a man fighting to redeem himself, of parents coping with horrific loss with only a whisper of hope to sustain them, of others for whom kidnapping is either only a job or a dream come true. The suspense—and the complicated web of violence that eventually links Sam to complete strangers—is relentless, urgently engaging and, ultimately, profoundly moving, the finest demonstration yet of Gautreaux’s understanding of landscape, history, human travail, and hope. In his latest novel, “The Missing,” the Louisiana author Tim Gautreaux focuses on the pointlessness of vengeance, showing that an eye for an eye not only blinds the world, it also makes a. Tim Gautreaux: The Missing. Season Episode | 26m 46s. A masterful novel set in s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store.
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