LEADER 00000nam 22003738i 4500 001 BK0019018289 003 DLC 005 20161201114536.0 008 160513t20162014meu ed 000 1 eng 010 2016022224 020 9781410493415 020 1410493415 037 |bWheeler Pub Inc, C/O Gale Group Po Box 9187, Farmington Hills, MI, USA, 48331-3535, (248)6994253|nSAN 213-4373 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dJFN|dUtOrBLW 092 |fF|aESKENS 100 1 Eskens, Allen,|d1963-|eauthor. 245 14 THE LIFE WE BURY/|cAllen Eskens. 250 Large print edition. 264 4 Waterville, Maine :|bWheeler Publishing,|c2016.|c©2014 300 461 pages (large print) ;|c23 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 340 |nlarge print|2rda 490 0 Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover 520 "College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Iverson is a dying Vietnam veteran--and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home, after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. Joe, along with his skeptical female neighbor, throws himself into uncovering the truth, but he is hamstrung in his efforts by having to deal with his dangerously dysfunctional mother, the guilt of leaving his autistic brother vulnerable, and a haunting childhood memory. Thread by thread, Joe unravels the tapestry of Carl's conviction. But by the time Joe disc 650 0 Dysfunctional families|vFiction. 650 0 Veterans|vFiction. 650 0 College students|vFiction. 650 0 Detective and mystery stories. 655 7 Mystery fiction.|2gsafd 655 7 Large type books.|2local
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