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(0)Ron Rash
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive from Boston in the North Carolina mountains to create a timber empire. Serena is new to the mountains - but she soon shows herself the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her husband?s life in the wilderness. Yet she also learns that she will never bear a child. Serena?s discovery will set in motion a course of events that will change the lives...
2) Serena
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Romantic period drama starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Set in depression-era North Carolina the film follows timber magnate George Pemberton (Cooper) and his wife Serena (Lawrence) as their marriage and the life they have built together deteriorates. Following a devastating miscarriage and the news that she cannot have children, Serena and George struggle with the fact that she will not be able to provide him with an heir to his empire....