On a Darkling Plain

by Burnham, R. P.

• ISBN13: 9780976627456
• ISBN10: 0976627450
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-06
• Publisher: Wessex House Pub

Summary

Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest molesting a boy. From this one event all the action in the novel follows and draws a wide cross section of the town -- a frantic mother, an idealistic teenage girl, a brooding, alienated young man, a priest, a minister, a swamp yankee, a lonely old man, a happy-go-lucky plumber, and many others -- into a theme that explores the nature of evil and its antidote empathy, the force that creates community, fellow-feeling and a sense of responsibility to others.