title: August Heat: A Novel
author:  Beth Lordan 
description: In this precisely rendered, lyrical first novel, nature is a dominant character, and human behavior is as rhythmic and inevitable as the change of seasons. At the beginning, a 60-ish widow, Rachel Wilcox, returns to her childhood home in a small rural community; at the end, a storm and flash flood sweep the town. Both events disturb the equilibrium of the townspeople. Rachel plans to sell the old family house and place her mad brother, Jacob, in a sanitarium near her city home. But she underestimates the old house's effect on Jacob and his mythic importance to the community. Jacob alone sees below life's surface to profound truths. Lordan's cadenced prose carries the reader through the story as a river carries a raft, inexorably and suspensefully. "All up and down River Street at just this moment, people peer at one another secretly and believe what they see, but, like the density of the heat and the days-old thrum of heat thunder, their vision is a deep distortion, outlines and textures false." Though Lordan romanticizes the essential cruelty of madness, her remarkably accomplished prose, laced with precise sensory and pastoral details, makes this novel both compelling and convincing. <br />Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Every Sunset Forever
  
  
  Hyena Heat Three
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By R. E. Butler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2014 R. E. Butler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Every Sunset Forever (Hyena Heat Three)
  
  
  By R. E .Butler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  License Notes
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be
  re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book
  with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If
  you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for
  your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting
  the hard work of the author.
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover by [Valerie Tibbs](http://www.tibbsdesign.com/)
  
  
  
  
  
  This ebook is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination and not to be construed as real. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locations is
  coincidental.
  
  
  Disclaimer: The material in this book