Sentences with phrase «consuming everyone in its path»

The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and centers around an incendiary romance that consumes everyone in its path: Myra Lamb, a wild young girl with mysterious, haint blue eyes who grows up on remote Bloodroot Mountain; her grandmother Byrdie Lamb, who protects Myra fiercely and passes down «the touch» that bewitches people and animals alike; the neighbor boy who longs for Myra yet is destined never to have her; the twin children Myra is forced to abandon but who never forget their mother's deep love; and John Odom, the man who tries to tame Myra and meets with shocking, violent disaster.

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Thewlis stars as Johnny, an intelligent but shiftless young Brit whose bitterness — at women, at the government, at God, and at himself — is all - consuming, causing him to viciously lash out at everyone in his path.