2023-06-16 17:33:02
From Heaven to the Stars is an “action-packed tale of a powerful moonshiner family in 1920s Virginia riddled with so many dead bodies, doomed romances and unforeseen betrayals that one wonders if George RR Martin made up his mind.” to abandon fantasy in favor of Southern Gothic.” (The New York Times)
Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She studied at Barnard College and worked as a journalist in New York for over twenty years. Her international bestseller “The Glass Castle” has been translated into over 20 languages and made into a very successful film with Woody Harrelson and Naomi Watts. She spent seven years writing her new novel “Vom Himmel die Sterne”.
A small town in Prohibition-era Virginia.
Sallie is the daughter of the most powerful man. She is five years old when her mother dies following a fight with Sallie’s father, the charismatic Duke Kincaid.
He remarries and has a son. When Sallie wants to teach her half-brother to be as strong as her father – and herself – her daring tutoring leads to a serious accident. Sallie is disowned and forced to leave the estate. At seventeen she returns to the Big House, determined to reclaim her place in the family. But the duke is dead, Prohibition is in effect and the city is being lynched. Determined not to back down a second time, Sallie defies the tough male world with confidence and perspicacity in order to change it forever.
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