The Clearing

by Tim Gautreaux

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Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.
  • ISBN10 0340828900
  • ISBN13 9780340828908
  • Publish Date 19 July 2004 (first published 22 September 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Sceptre
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 384
  • Language English