In 1985 the Outer Banks was on a different pace than it is now. It was much less crowded then, the days quieter and more prosaic. In the spring of that year individuals and groups headed to this narrow spit of land. They were coming for different reasons, two older couples to take part in an amateur bird-watching experiment, a college sophomore looking to put some space between her and her boyfriend, an instructor from North Carolina State University sent to coordinate the ornithological observations. Coming with the instructor is an old friend who had shown up at his door on the morning he...
In 1985 the Outer Banks was on a different pace than it is now. It was much less crowded then, the days quieter and more prosaic. In the spring of tha...
Rob Wheat is 55 years old. He has had a stroke in the past year and has an accelerating problem with alcohol. When a young Ukrainian woman he works with at an Outer Banks restaurant disappears, he becomes determined to find her. This quest, begun without resources or help, gradually broadens into a dangerous journey from the barrier island of North Carolina to the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa., and then back again. Through this journey, and with the help of a woman he has only just met, and whose motives are somewhat of a mystery to both of them, he gradually comes to grips with himself and...
Rob Wheat is 55 years old. He has had a stroke in the past year and has an accelerating problem with alcohol. When a young Ukrainian woman he works wi...
