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Bone dogs : a novel / Roger Alan Skipper.
LIBRA PS3619.K568 B66 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skipper, Roger Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Losers--Fiction.
- Losers.
- Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration.
- Architecture--Conservation and restoration--Fiction.
- Architecture.
- West Virginia--Fiction.
- West Virginia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2010]
- Summary:
- Tuesday Price is a wiseass, a boozer, and a loser. Only his wife Linda recalls a smarter, better man, and she's losing faith in that man's return. When Tuesday befriends a strange, silent Vietnam vet who eternally sits with a cooler of beer in a disabled pickup, Linda's had enough. At her departure, Tuesday is left with only his new friend as a companion--until the old vet is found dead, and Tuesday is blamed. Alone and haunted by regret, Tuesday's daily life deteriorates until he must unearth his sordid past to reach a worthwhile future. But his past is a tangle of murder, deceit, and abandonment for which his only punishment has been self-inflicted. In order to reclaim all that has been lost, he returns to his deserted childhood home and, with hammer and nails, rebuilds the sagging structure, reassembling a history quite different than the one he'd believed while finding the future not at all what he'd expected.
- ISBN:
- 9781582435633
- 1582435634
- OCLC:
- 430841181
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