The Kestrel Waters: A Tale of Love and Devil
Book Details
Author(s)Randy Thornhorn
PublisherRosasharn Press
ISBN / ASIN0615967469
ISBN-139780615967462
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank371,078
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
A Tale of Love and Devil, of Blood and Music, of Beautiful Madness and Butchery. "I was haunted throughout...mesmerizing...an extraordinary work of the imagination. Thornhorn, where the Hell have you been?" ~ William Peter Blatty (author of The Exorcist)
“Captures the tragedy of romantic and familial love better than any story I have ever read.†~ Janeiro Bento
"One of the South's wildest new voices..." ~ The Oxford American Magazine
An epic fable of human love, of an epic family, comic and profane. Inspired by The Everly Brothers (whose harmony grew from the tortured bluegrass roots of The Louvin Brothers), this odyssey of The Brothers Brass builds to a ferocious, unforeseen ending--never to be forgotten.
The Kestrel Waters are sweet and deep and full of sorrow.
The Kestrel Waters are dark and scary.
The Kestrel Waters are the waters of life.
In The Beginning were The Brothers Brass of Savannah, Georgia, singing at tent revivals, at 45 rpm, and on a transistor radio near you. Until some devil pulls the plug.
Stuck in Bible College, brother Kestrel Brass falls for a wild mountain girl who hides in trees. Her name is Bettilia. And, long ago, Bettilia says, she had to kill her bad step-daddy who stole her.
Soon love blossoms and Bettilia joins the shattered Brass family in their seafront home, Angel's Prey House. She arrives in the teeth of a winter storm, bearing blood secrets and a big white puppy. She is stalked by hobnail boots. The Brass family bonds around Bettilia, she sings with The Brothers Brass. She climbs into their treehouse, she entices Kestrel there. She grows and flourishes in Kestrel's world, swimming in Kestrel's waters. Yes, soon, they will be married.
But, again, Bettilia hears hobnail boots coming. And before their song is sung, Kestrel will dance with his devil and do battle for his bride on a haunted mountain called Riddle Top.
The Kestrel Waters is an eerie, heroic, and beautiful tale, awash in the waters of redemption.
“Captures the tragedy of romantic and familial love better than any story I have ever read.†~ Janeiro Bento
"One of the South's wildest new voices..." ~ The Oxford American Magazine
An epic fable of human love, of an epic family, comic and profane. Inspired by The Everly Brothers (whose harmony grew from the tortured bluegrass roots of The Louvin Brothers), this odyssey of The Brothers Brass builds to a ferocious, unforeseen ending--never to be forgotten.
The Kestrel Waters are sweet and deep and full of sorrow.
The Kestrel Waters are dark and scary.
The Kestrel Waters are the waters of life.
In The Beginning were The Brothers Brass of Savannah, Georgia, singing at tent revivals, at 45 rpm, and on a transistor radio near you. Until some devil pulls the plug.
Stuck in Bible College, brother Kestrel Brass falls for a wild mountain girl who hides in trees. Her name is Bettilia. And, long ago, Bettilia says, she had to kill her bad step-daddy who stole her.
Soon love blossoms and Bettilia joins the shattered Brass family in their seafront home, Angel's Prey House. She arrives in the teeth of a winter storm, bearing blood secrets and a big white puppy. She is stalked by hobnail boots. The Brass family bonds around Bettilia, she sings with The Brothers Brass. She climbs into their treehouse, she entices Kestrel there. She grows and flourishes in Kestrel's world, swimming in Kestrel's waters. Yes, soon, they will be married.
But, again, Bettilia hears hobnail boots coming. And before their song is sung, Kestrel will dance with his devil and do battle for his bride on a haunted mountain called Riddle Top.
The Kestrel Waters is an eerie, heroic, and beautiful tale, awash in the waters of redemption.
