Little Chapel on the River: A Pub, a Town and the Search for What Matters Most
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060564075 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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One friend brought them to Guinan's, an old Irish bar in the small, upper Hudson River town of Garrison, N.Y.—and Bounds soon felt at home. Agent, David Black. From Publishers Weekly Bounds and her partner lived across the street from the World Trade Center; they both wrote for the Wall Street Journal and were getting ready to go to work when the planes struck the towers on 9/11. It modestly reminds us that in this uncertain world, when you come to a place that speaks to you, you should hold it dear and treasure it while it lasts. She gradually let herself become enmeshed in the Guinan family saga, as well as in the intertwined tales of the regular customers. . (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Bounds's story isn't flashy or dramatic; it's as low-key
Surrounded by a crew of endearing, delightfully colorful characters who were now her neighbors and friends, she slowly finds her own way home.Beautifully written, deeply personal, and brilliantly insightful, Little Chapel on the River is a love story about a place -- and the people who bring it to life.. Forced from her downtown Manhattan apartment by the terrorist attack of September 11, journalist Wendy Bounds was delivered to Guinan's doorstep -- a legendary Irish drinking hole and country store nestled along the banks of the Hudson River in the small town of Garris
Coming home to a place she'd never been before Sometimes Life throws us a curve, and we land somewhere we didn't expect to be. And that place turns out to be the home we should have been looking for all along. That's what happened to NYC residents Wendy Bounds and Kathryn Kranhold in the aftermath of 9/. "You'll want to visit" according to A. Prentice. In this book, Wendy Bounds does two things really well that are really hard. First, she writes about her friends and neighbors with both clarity and kindness, capturing their voices, their struggles and strengths--as well as their faults--with grace and hum. Little Chapel on the River Margaret Hoogsrate My book club here in N.J. read this book, and we are about one hour from Garrison, N.Y. We all loved the book, so at out meeting after reading the book we decided to go there. We met the owner, and the lawyer, and ordered sandwiches for lunch and sat outsid