The Heart of a Distant Forest: A Novel (Modern Sthrn Clssc)

On its publication in 1984, Philip Lee Williams' THE HEART OF A DISTANT FOREST was hailed nationwide.

The stoy revolves around Andrew Lachlan, a retired junior college professor, who has returned to his family home on a lake in central Georgia to die. And yet, he has never felt so alive, so ready to learn about the natural world around his home. Having taught all his life, he is ready for quiet solitude. But a young country boy, Willie Sullivan, disrupts Lachlan'ssearch for order and rekindles memories he thought long dead.

Lachlan also meets Callie McKenzie, a woman he loved years earlier, and they soon begin to see in each other reflections of the lives they once led. Lachlan's journal of his year by the lake leads him to a deeper understanding of himself and the world.