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A powerfully emotional and beautifully written story of heartbreaking loss and undying love.
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate.
Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is there, too, supporting her and making everything possible. Together they steal away in the middle of the night to embark upon a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary's River--a voyage Doss promised Abbie in the early days of their courtship.
WHERE THE RIVER ENDS chronicles their love-filled, tragedy-tinged journey and a bond that transcends all.
In this sentimental story about a terminal cancer patient's demise, Martin (When Crickets Cry) examines the lengths to which a loving husband will go for his dying wife. Doss Michaels, a portrait painter with a "trailer trash" background, marries Charleston, S.C., debutante Abbie Eliot Coleman, raised primarily by her demanding U.S. senator father after her mother died of ovarian cancer when Abbie was two. A decade after Abbie and Doss's marriage, her father and stepmother will still have little to do with Doss. Abbie develops breast cancer that later metastasizes to her brain, and tensions rise when Abbie's parents want her to spend her last days with them. But Doss and Abbie, armed with Abbie's top 10 wish list and fistfuls of medication, begin a 129-mile river journey from the small town of Moniac, Ga., on the St. Mary River out to the ocean. Martin brings to life the varying flora and fauna of this often fraught journey, while he captures the singular atmosphere of life on a changeable river as it traverses through varying Georgian and Floridian terrain. In the tradition of Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller, Martin has fashioned a heartbreaking story. (July)
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Rubber Burner
reviewed Where the River Ends on November 05, 2009
Where the River Ends
I just. Couldn't. Do it. I tried to read this book, but I couldn't. From the very cover, with its silly "Warning: This book will break your heart." I doubted this book. The prose was overly conversational, with phrases like, "See that. That's what I love about her."
I don't like this kind of writing. I don't want someone ACTUALLY telling me a story, I want someone storytelling. The difference, for me, is simple. In one, I am consciously aware of the teller, and in the other the words disappear and it's like I'm watching a movie just behind my eyes. It's magic.
Also, the idea of the poor, slowly dying wife and her attentive, loving husband is very sweet, but unless the story picks up soon it's also very boring, because I'm not old, married, or dying of cancer (thank the Fates). I have no "in" to this story.
So, maybe its fantastic for someone else'but I put it down 50 pages in. I read about 2 books a week, but that doesn't mean I'll read something that bores me.
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