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To Look and Pass: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Taylor Caldwell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
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From the bestselling author of Captains and the Kings: The story of a blacksmith’s son, a small town, and a secret dark enough to seal a man’s fate.
 
Raised in a two-room shack behind his father’s smithy shop, Dan Hendricks was marked as an outcast from earliest childhood. The people of South Kenton assumed the poor, gangly boy would become as shiftless and dissolute as his drunkard father.
 
Despite the withering judgment and abuse, Dan manages to remain honest and open-hearted into adulthood. He founders in his attempt to find the tenderness and support a man needs. He cannot be with the woman he truly loves, and the one he marries takes a perverse pleasure in seeing him suffer. At the limits of his endurance, when Dan finally breaks we are left to wonder whether this is a destiny foretold or a senseless tragedy.
 
Full of the force and passion of Taylor Caldwell’s best-known novels, To Look and Pass is a revealing portrait of the dark side of small-town America from an author who “never falters when it comes to storytelling” (Publishers Weekly).
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G4WSPHM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (October 2, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 2, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 20244 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

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Taylor Caldwell

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Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell (September 7, 1900 – August 30, 1985) was an Anglo-American novelist and prolific author of popular fiction, also known by the pen names Marcus Holland and Max Reiner, and by her married name of J. Miriam Reback.

In her fiction, she often used real historical events or persons. Taylor Caldwell's best-known works include Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician (about Saint Luke), Ceremony of the Innocent, Pillar of Iron, The Earth is the Lord's (about Genghis Khan) and Captains and the Kings. Her last major novel, Answer As a Man, appeared in 1980.

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under His Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Author!
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2020
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Just love Taylor Caldwell, my fav author! Creating aibrary of her books!
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gerriedent
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy to find a copy of this book
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017
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Happy to find a copy of this book, I read it years ago and always had a fondness for the story, Delivery was quick!
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4.0 out of 5 stars To Look and Pass
Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2023
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A fine job capturing the era and small town environment. Much was written about not saying what you think or feel. Somehow, that was supposed to make you stronger but, in reality, it made you weaker and more unsettled.
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Regina McCloskey
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2015
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Enjoyed it after I got past the first few chapters! Thanks!
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Anne Mullen
5.0 out of 5 stars Innocence
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2004
To Look and Pass is one of Taylor Caldwell's best works. The story revolves around a group of young people at the turn of the century whose lives stay entwined even as they grow older. It is about forgiveness and expectations and the protection of innocence in the face of despair and evil. It is about relationships and how we would like them to be, not the way they really are. Sometimes the appearance of something is more important than the reality of it and the inability to recognize the difference can be dangerous. The setting is the tranquil Midwest with its predictable conventions which make the darker aspects of the story even more disturbing by contrast. In this story love is a twisted thing that serves to protect illusions but ultimately destroys everything that it touches. It is raw in its honest look at people with hidden motives who choose to hide from the truth. I have read this book several times over twenty years and it never fails to amaze me with its honesty and power.
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Sherry
4.0 out of 5 stars Begins slowly but worth the read
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2023
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I am thinking this may be an early Caldwell. Starts off a bit slowly but stay with it. It develops into a truly great read. It’s definitely not a ‘feel good’ story but one that touches depths of sorrow yet fully explores ‘the self’ as the whole!
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Raquel Valle- Senties
1.0 out of 5 stars julien325
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012
I have loved every Taylor Caldwell novel I've read since I was a teen. But I found this one to be very depressing. I find the character Dan Hendricks unfathonable and unreal. I have never come across a person like that in real life. He's almost like a sociopath without really being one. His friend Jim is bland as are all the rest of the characters. I never got to care for them.
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jadairmichele
4.0 out of 5 stars It is a narration of a man who was not liked because of his aloofness
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2015
I found this book to be rather difficult to get into, but once i was several chapters in, I found it rather thought provoking. It is a narration of a man who was not liked because of his aloofness, by his friend and is of their friendship from their teenage years until his friend's death. Very interesting to me.
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