On Bear Mountain
Author: Deborah Smith
ISBN: 9780732271275
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year first published: 19 Dec 2001
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
A shimmering, page-turning story about two families with nothing - and everything - in common.Ursula Powell, a modern southern woman, returns to her family home in the Georgia mountains when her father dies. With both parents gone, there is only Ursula and her autistic brother Arthur at the farm, along with an abstract iron sculpture of a bear which towers above the backyard. Commissioned years before from a struggling New York artist called Richard Riconni, the bear has been a symbolic and powerful presence in the lives of the Powell family. Arthur believes the bear embodies the spirit of their dead mother, so when Quentin Riconni arrives in town to reclaim the sculpture, emotions run high.Richard Riconni\'9291s work has become posthumously acclaimed, and Quentin offers Ursula millions of dollars for the bear sculpture - money which would solve many of the problems of this dirt-poor community. In his wallet, Quentin carries a faded photograph of Ursula as a child, standing with her father in front of the sculpture. the two have never met, but it seems they have been a part of one another's lives for many years. Eventually, Quentin discovers that when it comes to the heart, the price to be paid cannot be measured in dollars.In the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Anne Rivers Siddons, On Bear Mountain is about the power of destiny to change our lives forever.
ISBN: 9780732271275
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year first published: 19 Dec 2001
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
A shimmering, page-turning story about two families with nothing - and everything - in common.Ursula Powell, a modern southern woman, returns to her family home in the Georgia mountains when her father dies. With both parents gone, there is only Ursula and her autistic brother Arthur at the farm, along with an abstract iron sculpture of a bear which towers above the backyard. Commissioned years before from a struggling New York artist called Richard Riconni, the bear has been a symbolic and powerful presence in the lives of the Powell family. Arthur believes the bear embodies the spirit of their dead mother, so when Quentin Riconni arrives in town to reclaim the sculpture, emotions run high.Richard Riconni\'9291s work has become posthumously acclaimed, and Quentin offers Ursula millions of dollars for the bear sculpture - money which would solve many of the problems of this dirt-poor community. In his wallet, Quentin carries a faded photograph of Ursula as a child, standing with her father in front of the sculpture. the two have never met, but it seems they have been a part of one another's lives for many years. Eventually, Quentin discovers that when it comes to the heart, the price to be paid cannot be measured in dollars.In the tradition of Maeve Binchy and Anne Rivers Siddons, On Bear Mountain is about the power of destiny to change our lives forever.
