Rev. Johnny Fletcher serves wounded soldiers from the battlefield as a military chaplain during World War II. His fort??? is spiritual solace in the darkest of times, but his life changes when he performs a public heroic act: facing down an angry mob intent on attacking five young Holocaust survivors. Upon learning they have no homes or families to return to, Fletcher decides to bring them to America. To his dismay, his coal-mining community of Barryfield, Pennsylvania, greets this makeshift family with prejudice and ...
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Rev. Johnny Fletcher serves wounded soldiers from the battlefield as a military chaplain during World War II. His fort??? is spiritual solace in the darkest of times, but his life changes when he performs a public heroic act: facing down an angry mob intent on attacking five young Holocaust survivors. Upon learning they have no homes or families to return to, Fletcher decides to bring them to America. To his dismay, his coal-mining community of Barryfield, Pennsylvania, greets this makeshift family with prejudice and distrust. Beneath the town's placid surface run buried religious divisions. Fletcher's commitment to raising the children according to their individual faiths--two Protestant, two Catholic, and one Jewish--meets with horrific levels of intolerance. Dealing with such prejudice turns more sinister still when a local newspaper publisher cynically uses the story for his own purposes. Together with Lorry Summerfield, the beautiful, disillusioned daughter of Barryfield's most powerful figure, Fletcher must try to awaken the townspeople to the better angels of their nature before it's too late.
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VG/NONE. No DJ, tan boards, last page uncut from ep, very small scuff spot on spine, pp. 351-362 lower corners with fold creases, very small gift inscription on fep, o, w clean and bright inside and out, binding nice and tight.; 372 pages.
