A thousand miles from nowhere : a novel / John Gregory Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, John Gregory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Small cities.

Motels.

Mental illness--Fiction.

Mental illness.

Motels--Fiction.

Small cities--Fiction.

Virginia--Fiction.

Virginia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

276 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Summary:

"Fleeing New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Henry Garrett is haunted by the ruins of his marriage, a squandered inheritance, and the teaching job he inexplicably quit. He pulls into a small Virginia town after three days on the road, hoping to silence the ceaseless clamor in his head. But this quest for peace and quiet as the only guest at a roadside motel is destroyed when Henry finds himself at the center of a bizarre and violent tragedy. As a result, Henry winds up stranded at the ramshackle motel just outside the small town of Marimore, and it's there that he is pulled into the lives of those around him: Latangi, the motel's recently widowed proprietor, who seems to have a plan for Henry; Marge, a local secretary who marshals the collective energy of her women's church group; and the family of an old man, a prisoner, who dies in a desperate effort to provide for his infirm wife."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780316302807

0316302805

OCLC:

912045330