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Doig, Ivan

 
9781594487354: The Bartender's Tale
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1594487359 ISBN 13: 9781594487354
Verlag: Riverhead Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe


From a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change.

Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine.

Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A third-generation Montanan, Ivan Doig is the author of thirteen previous books, including the Indiebound bestsellerWork Song and the classic memoir This House of Sky. He has been a National Book Award finalist and has received the Wallace Stegner Award, among many other honors. He lives in Seattle.

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Verlag
Riverhead Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1594487359
ISBN 13 
9781594487354
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
387
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