The evening hour : a novel

"Avoiding a coal-mining job by working as a nursing home aide and covertly reselling unused prescription drugs, West Virginia native Cole Freeman half-heartedly resists a mining corporation's efforts to buy his family's land and pursues relationships with two troubled women until a disastrous threat forces Cole to confront his fears."@en
"While Cole alternately attempts romance with two troubled women, he also spends most of his time with the elderly patients at the nursing home where he works, desperately trying to ignore the decay of everything and everyone around him. Only when a disaster befalls these mountains is Cole forced to confront his fears and, finally, take decisive action-if not to save his world, to at least save himself."
"While Cole alternately attempts romance with two troubled women, he also spends most of his time with the elderly patients at the nursing home where he works, desperately trying to ignore the decay of everything and everyone around him. Only when a disaster befalls these mountains is Cole forced to confront his fears and, finally, take decisive action-if not to save his world, to at least save himself."@en