The Narrow Journey

By Deborah Clawson Johnson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738833673
• ISBN13: 9780738833675
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Xlibris Corp
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Evocative, expressive, and fresh

I met the author today at a public library and had decided to buy her book after hearing two sentences come out of her mouth. I knew I was going to love the book when she told the audience that she had once aspired to writing bodice-ripper novels, but had come to her senses, immersed herself in studying the craft of writing under William Price Fox, threw away her original manuscript, and started over again from scratch. Guts, study, and intelligent, hard work. That's the difference between writer wannabe's and REAL writers. In this, her debut novel, Deborah Johnson shows that she's already well down the road to becoming a writer's writer: expressive, insightful, and polished. The word pictures she paints are a delight. Example: "I do not remember much about my papa. I recall he wore a big mustache that kindly wrapped around the corners of his mouth. He clipped his toenails on the front porch with sewing shears. he played the accordion. He liked to look at the stars. I am told he was a dreamer." Louisiana's loss is South Carolina's gain. -- Richard N. Cote, Editor-in-Chief, Corinthian Books, and author of "Mary's World" and "The Redneck Riviera."

Marvelous tale

This fascinating novel has something hard to define,but able to jump merrily over language and cultural barriers and melt this hardened Spanish reader.Call it the universaliy of literary genius or narrative honesty,but if you dont find yourself rooting,sobbing, or at least feeling very mushy about Lucie,the Cajun girl with a heart and courage the size of the infamous Titanic,and after the very fist pages,you can consider yourself a difficult case. Moving but full of humour and without the slight trace of melodrama, it creates an epic of its own, in the simple way of a story well told.A must.

A Wonderful Adventure!

The Narrow Journey, by Deborah Clawson Johnson is an excellent book. Ms. Johnson takes you on a whirlwind adventure all over the US. The story of her heroine, Lucie, is inspiring to say the least. The book was gripping and I loved it from start to finish.

Lucie will inspire you...

I loved this story of a poor plain Cajun girl fighting her way to womanhood in 1800s Louisiana. Lucie Troclair may not have been born with much more than a quick brain and a stubborm spirit that is both her blessing and her curse, but fight she does for a better life than she's been given. Her fight takes her from a shack to the Big House and all the way to the rough mining towns of the Colorado Rockies, never giving in to the pain of her losses, or getting too confident in her triumphs. The supporting cast of characters will also win you over. Charles, whose heart is better than his head will allow him to be. O'Neil, who hides his big heart underneath a hard shell that Lucie may not be able to break. And the rest of them, good and bad, who are so real you can almost see their faces on faded tin types. And throughout the story Lucie's strong voice leads you along to the very satisfying end. I can't wait for more from this very talented author.