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Synopsis
Johnny Cook went to sleep in 1905 and woke up in 2025.
He was nearly twenty, a mechanic’s son from a dirt road outside Detroit, saving coins in a mason jar toward something he couldn’t name. Then one ordinary night the world folded over on itself, and Johnny opened his eyes on a park bench in a Washington he could not begin to understand — a hundred and twenty years from home.
He spent a year there. He learned the future, every bright and terrible piece of it, and carried all of it quietly because there was no one he could tell. And when at last he understood why he had been sent — and what waited for him back home — he went back to build a life worthy of everything he’d been shown: the woman he loved, the house he’d walked past for years, and a family he would carry through every storm the century had in store.
A warm, hopeful story about decency, patience, and the quiet courage of keeping a promise across a hundred and twenty years, Implausible but Believable is for readers who loved the gentle wonder of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove — a novel about a man who saw what was coming and chose, every single day, to love the people in front of him anyway.
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À propos de l'auteur
Jackie L. Smith - known to most as Jack - is a retired United States Navy veteran whose service spanned two decades, from 1959 to 1979. He went to sea aboard aircraft carriers, crossed the Atlantic for hunter-killer training with the Sixth Fleet, served with helicopter squadrons, and traveled to ports from Boston to Quebec City to the Mediterranean. While on active duty he earned a bachelor's degree from Chaminade University in Honolulu and later a master's degree from Central Michigan University. After retiring from the Navy he spent eight years running a specialized hospital for the State of Oklahoma, then served another twenty years as a civilian with the United States Air Force, retiring in 2009 after more than four decades of public service.He began writing novels in his eighties.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In the spring of 1905, Johnny Cook is twenty years old - the steadiest son of a farming family outside Detroit, a young man who fixes things, keeps his word, and plans to marry Harley Mason just as soon as he has earned the right to ask. One night he falls asleep in 1905 and wakes on a bench in Washington DC, a hundred and twenty years into the future.He does not panic. He finds work, finds shelter with an elderly woman named Hattie Washington who asks no questions she does not need answered, and spends a year learning the shape of the world that is coming - the wars, the costs, the disasters - reading everything, watching everything, and carrying it all quietly. Then a young woman named Dakota sits beside him at the Reflecting Pool and tells him about a photograph on her mother's dresser. A young man named John Cook, taken around 1905, with eyes that look like he is carrying something nobody else can see. Like he has already seen what the rest of the world has not seen yet.Johnny understands, in that moment, that Dakota exists because he goes home.He goes home. He marries Harley. He earns a university degree, enters civic planning, and helps shape the city of Detroit through the automobile age - all while carrying inside him the full weight of a century of history he cannot change and cannot share. He watches the First World War come and go. He quietly steers his youngest son, Thomas, toward the Marine Corps before the Second World War begins, because he already knows what Thomas is going to be asked to do, and he wants him ready.The years settle over the family like something earned. Harley's hair goes silver and her eyes do not change. Grandchildren fill the house. Johnny is in his office at sixty, still thinking clearly, still grateful for every ordinary day - because no one in the world knows better than he does how rare ordinary days are.In the epilogue, told through Hattie's eyes in October of 2025, she goes to his room and finds his bed neatly made, his clothes folded on the chair, and two envelopes on the desk. She reads his letter three times. Then she folds it, puts it in her pocket, and goes to make coffee - because she has been expecting this for a long time, and she knows how to wait.A Night a Hundred Years Long is a story about a man who lives his entire life with perfect foreknowledge of history and imperfect knowledge of the people he loves - and who chooses the people every time. After a sudden leap through time, a young man must live out a full life burdened by the heavy knowledge of a century's tragedies, choosing to cherish every fleeting moment of peace while navigating a future he already knows by heart. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054343
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In the spring of 1905, Johnny Cook is twenty years old - the steadiest son of a farming family outside Detroit, a young man who fixes things, keeps his word, and plans to marry Harley Mason just as soon as he has earned the right to ask. One night he falls asleep in 1905 and wakes on a bench in Washington DC, a hundred and twenty years into the future.He does not panic. He finds work, finds shelter with an elderly woman named Hattie Washington who asks no questions she does not need answered, and spends a year learning the shape of the world that is coming - the wars, the costs, the disasters - reading everything, watching everything, and carrying it all quietly. Then a young woman named Dakota sits beside him at the Reflecting Pool and tells him about a photograph on her mother's dresser. A young man named John Cook, taken around 1905, with eyes that look like he is carrying something nobody else can see. Like he has already seen what the rest of the world has not seen yet.Johnny understands, in that moment, that Dakota exists because he goes home.He goes home. He marries Harley. He earns a university degree, enters civic planning, and helps shape the city of Detroit through the automobile age - all while carrying inside him the full weight of a century of history he cannot change and cannot share. He watches the First World War come and go. He quietly steers his youngest son, Thomas, toward the Marine Corps before the Second World War begins, because he already knows what Thomas is going to be asked to do, and he wants him ready.The years settle over the family like something earned. Harley's hair goes silver and her eyes do not change. Grandchildren fill the house. Johnny is in his office at sixty, still thinking clearly, still grateful for every ordinary day - because no one in the world knows better than he does how rare ordinary days are.In the epilogue, told through Hattie's eyes in October of 2025, she goes to his room and finds his bed neatly made, his clothes folded on the chair, and two envelopes on the desk. She reads his letter three times. Then she folds it, puts it in her pocket, and goes to make coffee - because she has been expecting this for a long time, and she knows how to wait.A Night a Hundred Years Long is a story about a man who lives his entire life with perfect foreknowledge of history and imperfect knowledge of the people he loves - and who chooses the people every time. After a sudden leap through time, a young man must live out a full life burdened by the heavy knowledge of a century's tragedies, choosing to cherish every fleeting moment of peace while navigating a future he already knows by heart. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054343
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the spring of 1905, Johnny Cook is twenty years old - the steadiest son of a farming family outside Detroit, a young man who fixes things, keeps his word, and plans to marry Harley Mason just as soon as he has earned the right to ask. One night he falls asleep in 1905 and wakes on a bench in Washington DC, a hundred and twenty years into the future.He does not panic. He finds work, finds shelter with an elderly woman named Hattie Washington who asks no questions she does not need answered, and spends a year learning the shape of the world that is coming - the wars, the costs, the disasters - reading everything, watching everything, and carrying it all quietly. Then a young woman named Dakota sits beside him at the Reflecting Pool and tells him about a photograph on her mother's dresser. A young man named John Cook, taken around 1905, with eyes that look like he is carrying something nobody else can see. Like he has already seen what the rest of the world has not seen yet.Johnny understands, in that moment, that Dakota exists because he goes home.He goes home. He marries Harley. He earns a university degree, enters civic planning, and helps shape the city of Detroit through the automobile age - all while carrying inside him the full weight of a century of history he cannot change and cannot share. He watches the First World War come and go. He quietly steers his youngest son, Thomas, toward the Marine Corps before the Second World War begins, because he already knows what Thomas is going to be asked to do, and he wants him ready.The years settle over the family like something earned. Harley's hair goes silver and her eyes do not change. Grandchildren fill the house. Johnny is in his office at sixty, still thinking clearly, still grateful for every ordinary day - because no one in the world knows better than he does how rare ordinary days are.In the epilogue, told through Hattie's eyes in October of 2025, she goes to his room and finds his bed neatly made, his clothes folded on the chair, and two envelopes on the desk. She reads his letter three times. Then she folds it, puts it in her pocket, and goes to make coffee - because she has been expecting this for a long time, and she knows how to wait.A Night a Hundred Years Long is a story about a man who lives his entire life with perfect foreknowledge of history and imperfect knowledge of the people he loves - and who chooses the people every time. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798996054343
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