Audio Book Description:
The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a malevolent father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol andpills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family by taking up with the son of their half Native American gardener, aremostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood, enlightened bythree unforgettably intoxicating women, he realizes he must come to terms withhis forefathers` rapacious destruction of the wood of Michigan`s Upper Peninsula, as well as with the working people who made their wealthpossible. With thirty years of searching for the truthof what his family has done and trying to make amends, David looks close at theroot of his father`s evil--and threatenslike Icarus, to destroyhimself.
