A national bestseller, the story of "a boy's last days of youth
and a history his father can't leave behind" ("The Daily
Beast").
Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a
venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole
and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana.
Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets"
whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd
kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just
fine.
Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change
arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom
knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as
Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without
a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every
certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and
pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. "The
Bartender's Tale "wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger
and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of
childhood.
General
Imprint: |
Riverhead Books,U.S.
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Two Medicine Country |
Release date: |
August 2013 |
First published: |
August 2013 |
Authors: |
Ivan Doig
|
Dimensions: |
203 x 130 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
432 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-59463-148-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Historical fiction
|
LSN: |
1-59463-148-4 |
Barcode: |
9781594631481 |
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