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"One of my favorite storytellers...." - Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist "A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida." - Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose..." - Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780692534175
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 258
  • Udgivet:
  • 17. september 2015
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x14x229 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 379 g.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 14. december 2024
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"One of my favorite storytellers...."
- Hollis George, noted editor and anthologist
"A raw novel written with the passion of memory and the experience of growing up in a beachside community on the northern corner of Florida."
- Hayes Brandwell, The Polemicist Post
As a former newspaper colleague of Bill Burkett, I can certify that there is truth in this well-crafted prose..."
- Pamela Paige, former feature writer, Florida Times-Union
The time was 1959. Walter was a cook at Dawson's Famous Seafood Restaurant supporting his tubercular wife in an inland sanatorium and their daughter, who lived with her mother's parents. He was a loner who minded his own business until Corinne came to work as a waitress and he saw a chance to grab a little moment of happiness with her. But Corinne was a lodestone for dangerous men and he was on a collision course with disaster. "A nearly lost masterpiece is discovered ... modern Southern Gothic," says Shirrel Rhoades, former fiction editor for The Saturday Evening Post.

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