Blowing Clear

332 pp. John Heath lived the life of a recluse and was a mystery to the village gossips. Out of the past he strove to forget comes a boy--his son. And John Heath opens his heart to the lad. His whole life begins to center in bringing this boy to fine manhood. But simultaneously two blows falls upon John Heath, one through the son he has come to love, the other out of that same past that has hung like a shadow in the background.--jacket