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CurtisB
Posted March 25, 2012
Nate and Kelly captured my interest from the very beginning! It is not too often that I come across a historical novel that I feel the need to share with a friend, but I have already passed on my copy of Nate and Kelly. As an educator, I am always searching for period pieces that I can use to elaborate on life in America, and I have found that Nate and Kelly will be useful in my lesson planning. Buy yourself a copy of Nate and Kelly, and you will be glad you did.
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Posted July 18, 2011
When I started reading "Nate and Kelly" I wasn't sure what to expect as I usually can't get interested in historical fiction. This book was different though pulling me into the action until I had trouble putting it down. I wanted to just keep reading. Set in the early 20th century "Nate and Kelly" examines the fear and hatred consuming the lives of society and how demagogues used these prejudices in order to gain power. Nate, a businessman trying to make a start at the Panama Pacific International Exposition, finds himself pulled into a world of crime as he is framed for the disappearance of gold coins. Running for his life he meets Kelly, a prostitute who also ran from the same evil men, and falls in love. They soon find that the hatred they were running from is alive in this small town as well as violence erupts around them engulfing them in its evil arms. Nate tries to explain it with "It's easier to blame entire groups than to deal with human beings as individuals". This novel, so well penned by Michael R. Barnard, makes you ponder the problems of society we live in today. When told he is a "good man" for trying to help in one horrible situation, Chester, a minor character, replies "I ain't no 'good man'. Good men do nothing. That's why there's so much evil". We're now in the early 21st century, a hundred years later, and I have to wonder how much progress we as a society have made in those hundred years. Technology continues to soar ahead but our problems continue to be there. Maybe too many of us are trying to be "good men". I highly recommend this powerful historical fiction, "Nate and Kelly", by Michael R. Barnard.
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Overview
1915.A businessman and a prostitute find love.
And hate.
The United States of America faced incomprehensible horror one day shortly after the turn of the century.
There was shock, destruction, and death. War loomed. Americans veered toward either hopelessness, fear, and hate or toward vision, faith, and rebuilding.
They asked, “Could life in America ever be great again?” Some said, “No, let’s retreat to the past.” Others said, “Yes, let’s move forward.” Demagogues exploited ...