Description |
301 pages ; 25 cm |
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"National Book Award Finalist". |
Summary |
In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl - her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house - is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together - their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. |
Subject |
City and town life -- Fiction.
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High school teachers -- Fiction.
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Single fathers -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Colorado -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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ISBN |
9780375705854 paperback |
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0375705856 paperback |
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