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Robbins, J. David

 
9781462007578: The Layout
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1462007570 ISBN 13 : 9781462007578
Editeur : iUniverse, 2011

Synopsis

When a Depression-era southern town suffers a series of inexplicable tragedies, life is interrupted for its denizens—including a womanizing mayor, the abused wife of a sullen locomotive engineer, an honest but compromised police chief, a minister that seems to levitate, a dying junk dealer, a Black preacher caught between two worlds, a brutal company guard, a diminutive railroad executive and master manipulator, and a group of church ladies prone to gossip. Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a sister intent upon giving him a “normal” life. What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the fictions we create and how we come to believe them.

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When a Depression-era southern town suffers a series of inexplicable tragedies, life is interrupted for its denizens—including a womanizing mayor, the abused wife of a sullen locomotive engineer, an honest but compromised police chief, a minister that seems to levitate, a dying junk dealer, a Black preacher caught between two worlds, a brutal company guard, a diminutive railroad executive and master manipulator, and a group of church ladies prone to gossip. Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a sister intent upon giving him a “normal” life. What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the fictions we create and how we come to believe them.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1462007570
ISBN 13 
9781462007578
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1462007597 ISBN 13 :  9781462007592
Editeur : iUniverse, 2011
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