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Kindred of the Dust

Kindred of the Dust

Kyne, Peter B.
Cornwell, Dean

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 116280470X
ISBN13: 9781162804705
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kindred of the Dust is a novel written by Peter B. Kyne. The story is set in the early 1900s and follows the life of a young man named Jack Bates, who lives in the small town of Buena Vista in California. Jack is the son of a wealthy landowner and is used to a life of luxury and privilege. However, when his father dies, Jack is left with nothing and is forced to work as a laborer in the fields.As Jack struggles to adapt to his new life, he meets a young woman named Mary who works as a waitress in a local diner. Despite their different backgrounds, Jack and Mary fall in love and decide to get married. However, their happiness is short-lived as Jack's former life catches up with him and threatens to destroy everything he has worked for.Kindred of the Dust is a story about love, loss, and the struggle to overcome adversity. It explores themes of class, wealth, and the American Dream, and is a timeless tale that still resonates with readers today.1920. The novel begins: In the living-room of the Dreamerie, his home on Tyee Head, Hector McKaye, owner of the Tyee Lumber Company and familiarly known as The Laird, was wont to sit in his hours of leisure, smoking and building castles in Spain-for his son Donald. Here he planned the acquisition of more timber and the installation of an electric-light plant to furnish light, heat, and power to his own town of Port Agnew; ever and anon he would gaze through the plate-glass windows out to sea and watch for is ships to come home. Whenever The Laird put his dreams behind him, he always looked seaward. In the course of time, his home-bound skippers, sighting the white house on the headland and knowing that The Laird was apt to be up there watching, formed the habit of doing something that pleased their owner mightily. When the northwest trades held steady and true, and while the tide was still at the flood, they would scorn the services of the tug that went out to meet them and come ramping into the bight, all their white sails set and the glory of the sun upon them; as they swept past, far below The Laird, they would dip his house-flag-a burgee, scarlet-edged, with a fir tree embroidered in green on a field of white-the symbol to the world that here was a McKaye ship. And when the house-flag fluttered half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of Hector McKaye would thrill. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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