The Clearing (Vintage Contemporaries) (Reprint)

Returning from the Great War a changed man, Byron Aldridge drifts away from his privileged and charmed life to take a job as a constable in a remote Louisiana sawmill, while his younger brother, taking over management of the mill, struggles to understand him, in an atmospheric novel of family, justice, and obligation. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.