The Clearing

by Mary Elsie Robertson

At the edge of a clearing deep in the woods sits the abandoned hunting cabin in which a woman and her young son spend a harrowing winter that only one of them will survive. It is the middle of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689112750
• ISBN13: 9780689112751
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A stark, potent read ...

I'm not sure why, but from the moment I began reading this book I was hooked. I read only a few chapters before I went to bed, but when I awoke the next morning immediately my mind was filled with images of deep woods, and I was gripped with a need to know what became of this fugitive mother and her etheral son. I found myself turning page after page flowing through the lean, haunting prose relentlessly seeking resolution, relief from the pressure which builds almost languidly to its unbearable pitch. A rare combination of the subtle and the stark, with deep undercurrents of truth. Its echoes will haunt me for some time to come ... (Note: steer clear of the dustjacket blurb, which reveals far too much of the story.)