Winter Run

This novel of a boyhood in 1940s Virginia offers “a graceful, compassionate ode to farm life in a bygone era” ( Publishers Weekly ).   Charlie Lewis is the only child of metropolitan parents who, after World War II, decide to move to the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains and live on a “gentleman’s farm” near Charlottesville. Just six years old when his family settles in to their new life, Charlie discovers his personal version of heaven.   Charlie has a natural—almost supernatural—affin