Situé dans le sud profond des années 1970, Whereabouts est la puissante histoire de passage à l'âge adulte d'un adolescent indépendant qui aspire désespérément à fuir sa petite ville natale claustrophobe après la mort inattendue de son père et le remariage soudain de sa mère avec le directeur funéraire local.
Alors qu'elle tente de tracer une nouvelle voie pour sa jeune vie, la recherche de Missy est constamment déraillée par les hommes qu'elle rencontre : le beau-père morticien avec un penchant pour les femmes froides, un cousin beaucoup plus âgé qui propose de la conduire sans but dans son ramassage poussiéreux (pour un prix raide, peut-être tragique), le propriétaire insolite d'un motel tout mais abandonné au bord de la route, et une paire de dépareillés AWOL Marines de Parris Island.
Des terrains de camping bon marché aux bars en bordure de route, au comptoir Formica fissuré d'une crêpière en ruine, Missy Belue erre sur les routes arrière d'un sud oublié, à la recherche d'un endroit sûr pour atterrir, gagnant du tissu cicatriciel frais du monde confus et compliqué en dehors de sa ville natale. Dans Whereabouts, l'écrivain primé Scott Gould tisse lyriquement un conte d'évasion et de rédemption et, finalement, de la façon dont l'amour survit, peu importe les chemins tordus qu'il parcoure.
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Scott Gould's previous book, Strangers to Temptation-a linked story collection the Atlanta Journal Constitution called a compulsive read and Foreword Reviews dubbed funny, often poignant, and not easily forgotten-was published by Hub City Press in 2017. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Kenyon Review, New Stories from the South, Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Garden & Gun, New Ohio Review, The Bitter Southerner, and Crazyhorse among others. He is a two-time winner of the SC Arts Commission's Individual Artist Fellowship in Prose and the SC Academy of Authors Fiction Fellowship. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina and teaches creative writing at the SC Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities.
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Vendeur : World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. Set in the deep South of the 1970s, Whereabouts is the powerful coming-of-age story of an independent teenager who desperately longs to flee her small, claustrophobic hometown following the unexpected death of her father and her mother's sudden remarriage to the local funeral director. As she attempts to map a new course for her young life, Missy's search is constantly derailed by the men she encounters-the mortician stepfather with a penchant for chilly women, a much older third cousin who offers to drive her aimlessly in his dusty pickup (for a steep, perhaps tragic price), the quirky owner of an all-but-abandoned roadside motel, and a pair of mismatched AWOL Marines from Parris Island. From cheap campgrounds to roadside bars, to the cracked Formica counter of a crumbling pancake house, Missy Belue wanders the back roads of a forgotten South, looking for a safe place to land, earning fresh scar tissue from the confusing, complicated world outside her hometown. In Whereabouts, award-winning writer Scott Gould lyrically weaves a tale of escape and redemption and, ultimately, of how love somehow survives, no matter the twisting paths it travels. N° de réf. du vendeur 00099435367
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Vendeur : World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis
Paperback. Etat : Good. Set in the deep South of the 1970s, Whereabouts is the powerful coming-of-age story of an independent teenager who desperately longs to flee her small, claustrophobic hometown following the unexpected death of her father and her mother's sudden remarriage to the local funeral director. As she attempts to map a new course for her young life, Missy's search is constantly derailed by the men she encounters-the mortician stepfather with a penchant for chilly women, a much older third cousin who offers to drive her aimlessly in his dusty pickup (for a steep, perhaps tragic price), the quirky owner of an all-but-abandoned roadside motel, and a pair of mismatched AWOL Marines from Parris Island. From cheap campgrounds to roadside bars, to the cracked Formica counter of a crumbling pancake house, Missy Belue wanders the back roads of a forgotten South, looking for a safe place to land, earning fresh scar tissue from the confusing, complicated world outside her hometown. In Whereabouts, award-winning writer Scott Gould lyrically weaves a tale of escape and redemption and, ultimately, of how love somehow survives, no matter the twisting paths it travels. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN164663182XG
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