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Railroad Man (2011)

by Alle Wells(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Alle Wells

review 1: I finished Railroad Man a couple of days ago and was so moved I’ve been thinking about it ever since. Mickey grows up in the deep South of the 1930’s, a region just as hard hit by the Depression as any other part of the country. His Daddy is dead, and he grows up in the family homestead on 500 acres with his mother and two older sisters. Lewis and Aunt Sarah are the African Americans who help around the house, and Marianne is Mickey’s true love.Everything goes sour for Mickey when his Uncle Johnny Mack won’t even consider letting the two get married. Mickey leaves town and joins the railroad, starting on a long and successful career. I was mesmerized by the way women played such a significant role in Mickey’s life, from his wife Flo to his cousin Marianne, his mo... morether, and his sisters. The events in Railroad Man are not uniformly happy, just as life itself is no walk in the park. The author gets it just right in this saga of the old South, as there is not a drop of sentimentality to be found anywhere here. This book is a spectacular achievement in the southern storytelling vein of Flannery O’Connor.
review 2: I find very little time in which I'm able to read. However after reading the reviews of Railroad Man I made an exception and sat down to what I consider an excellent read. True to life the characters are well written with a story line made to make it a page turner. I read until the end without interruption.(unusual for me)It is easy to visualize being a friend of Mick and I found his pursuit of happiness an interesting journey of misery as well as good fortune. After all, love has no boundaries within a man's heart. The story is well founded and descriptive in every aspect of the man's life. The book is excellent and I highly recommend this book to anyone young or old. Congratulations Alle Wells on a job well done and I look forward to reading more of your work in the future. I purchased this book on Amazon.com and this is an unsolicited review. less

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