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Write letter to Billy / a novel by Toby Olson.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.L84 W75 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, Toby.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- California, Southern--Fiction.
- California, Southern.
- Southern California.
- Retirees--Fiction.
- Retirees.
- Divers--Fiction.
- Divers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 407 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : Coffee House Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, [2000]
- Summary:
- United with a long lost teenage daughter, a retired Navy underwater repair specialist investigates a mysterious list his father had written just before his death. Some of the items are crossed off, but one of the unfinished tasks haunts him: "Write letter to Billy." What had his father planned to tell him? What he learns changes his life forever.
- Influenced by D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens, Toby Olson's pointed examination of memory and consciousness illustrates how the unraveling of external mystery leads to self-discovery.
- ISBN:
- 1566891035
- OCLC:
- 44425398
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