The Light in the Forest, Conrad Richter
The Light in the Forest, Conrad Richter
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The Light in the Forest

Author: Conrad Richter

Narrator: Joel Fabiani

Unabridged: 4 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/03/2009

Synopsis

"True Son's heart felt like a stone. How could this fantastic and inferior figure in a long fawn-colored garment like a woman's be possibly anything to him-this pallid creature who revealed his feelings in front of all! In the boy's mind came the picture of his Indian father. How differently he would have looked and acted. With what dignity and restraint he could conduct himself in any situation, in peace or war, in council or the hunt, with pipe or tomahawk, rifle or scalping knife. This weak and pale-skinned man was nothing beside him 'He's not my father,' he said."-from The Light in the Forest. Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.

About Conrad Richter

Before becoming one of America's greatest novelists, Conrad Richter (1890-1968) worked driving a wagon over the mountains of Pennsylvania, in a machine shop, in a small-town bank, on a farm, in his own timber business, and reporting for newspapers, among other jobs. A dogged researcher, he wrote fifteen novels, most of them set on the American frontier, including The Light in the Forest and The Sea of Grass, as well as numerous short stories. His novels won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and many other accolades.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bren fall in love with the sea. on May 08, 2021

"Now go like an Indian, True Son. Give me no more shame". Conrad Richter-The Light In The Forest Sometimes there are books assigned to one in school that ARE worth reading. Sometimes they even make it onto your favorite list. Such is the case with 'The Light in the forest". This was a book I read for s......more

Goodreads review by persephone ☾ on November 13, 2023

when the ending is so unsatisfactory that you’re getting dangerously close to reading fan fiction that have an alternative and happy outcome......more

Goodreads review by Werner on June 25, 2008

Pennsylvania native Richter was well-known as a serious writer of historical fiction set on the Pennsylvania and Ohio frontier (one of his other novels won a Pulitzer Prize). This is one of his "minor" works, and is certainly short enough to be a fairly quick read; but nonetheless, it doesn't lack f......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on May 25, 2016

I've read a number of reviews which seem to feel having been assigned to read this book in eighth grade somehow makes it a poisoned pill of sorts. I don't agree that if some book is required homework means the subject assigned must be crappy moralistic stuff grownups are yet again shoving down juven......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on September 02, 2009

This very short novel is read in junior high English classes, deservedly, because the novel is engaging, but also full of issues that kids understand: alienation, moral dilemma-choices, family issues. The plot revolves a colonial boy kidnapped, then raised, by native Americans who, because of treaty......more

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