The Layout - Couverture rigide

Robbins, Jeff

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1462007597 ISBN 13 : 9781462007592

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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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1462007597
• ISBN 13: 9781462007592
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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