| Description |
207 pages ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
PSU Alumni Author.
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| Note |
PSU Alumni Author |
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Copy 3 shelved in Book Nook. |
| Contents |
Champion -- The ravine -- Purple hulls -- This too shall pass -- Good times gone -- The thing with feathers -- Good money -- All-star -- That kind of face -- On account -- Smoke fades away -- Reception -- How many holes -- Debts to pay -- Country hardball -- Prodigal -- Miracles -- Harvest. |
| Summary |
After more than a decade spent in and out of juvenile detention, halfway houses, and jail, Roy Alison returns to his rural hometown determined to do better, to be better. But what he finds is a working-class community devastated by the economic downturn--a town without anything to hold onto but the past. Staying with his grandmother, Roy discovers a family history of good intentions and bad choices, of making do without much chance of doing better. Around him, families lose their sons to war, hunting accidents, drugs. And Roy, along with the town, falls into old patterns established. |
| Subject |
Ex-convicts -- Fiction.
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Country life -- Fiction.
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Working class -- Fiction.
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Country life. (OCoLC)fst00881405
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Ex-convicts. (OCoLC)fst00917418
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Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Suspense fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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| Added Author |
Weddle, Steve (Novelist).
Champion.
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| ISBN |
1440570809 (hardback) |
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9781440570803 (hardback) |
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1440570817 (paperback) |
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9781440570810 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
99956078961 |
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