Porter Osborne, fresh from medical school and in conflict about his destiny, lands at Omaha Beach with the Allies, in the conclusion to trilogy that includes the acclaimed Run with the Horsemen and The Whisper of the River. Reprint. NYT.
A boy's account of growing up in the South during the depression era. Both a rare first novel and a new American classic, Sams novel has been compared to Tom Sawyer and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Thousands came to know and love the boy in Ferrol Sams's brilliant, best-selling first novel RUN WITH THE HORSEMEN. Now the redoubtable Porter Osborne, Jr. is back - a little older, slightly more worldly, but just as full of mischief and curiosity as ever. With the power and grace which readily identify Ferrol Sams's writing, THE WHISPER OF THE R...more