When a Depression-era southern town suffers a series of
inexplicable tragedies, life is interrupted for its denizens
including a womanizing mayor, the abused wife of a sullen
locomotive engineer, an honest but compromised police chief, a
minister that seems to levitate, a dying junk dealer, a Black
preacher caught between two worlds, a brutal company guard, a
diminutive railroad executive and master manipulator, and a group
of church ladies prone to gossip.
Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are
interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary
widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under
the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious
acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a
sister intent upon giving him a normal life.
What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the
fictions we create and how we come to believe them.
General
Imprint: |
Iuniverse, Inc.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2011 |
First published: |
July 2011 |
Authors: |
Jeff Robbins
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
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Pages: |
464 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4620-0759-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4620-0759-7 |
Barcode: |
9781462007592 |
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