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Float Up, Sing Down
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Float Up, Sing Down
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List price R415
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Discovery Miles 3 320
You Save R83 (20%)
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From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful
collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in
Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika.
Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her
mother she was going to Milky Freeze, but that's not where she's
really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is
the story of a single day. But in that day, how much teeming life!
The residents of this rural town have their routines, their
preferences, their joys, grudges, and regrets. The old-timers savor
past triumphs, cast back to lives circumscribed and defined by the
World Wars, wonder what might have been. Youngsters covet cars,
karate moves, kissing; they writhe in the first blushes of love or
pain or independence. Gossip is paramount. Lives are entwined.
Retired sheriffs climb corn bins and muse on lost love, French
teachers throw firecrackers out of barn windows, and teenagers
borrow motorcycles to ride the back roads. Each of the fourteen
stories of Float Up, Sing Down follows one character's
'day-in-the-life' in one of Hunt's most beloved and enduring
landscapes. As the book unfolds these lives echo and glance off of
one another with elegance and warmth, a tenderness born of
strength. In the tradition of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson,
Elizabeth Strout, and Edward P. Jones, this is a symphony of souls,
a masterful portrait of both loneliness and community by one of our
great limners of American experience.
General
Imprint: |
Riverrun Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2024 |
Authors: |
Laird Hunt
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Dimensions: |
216 x 135mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5294-3451-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-5294-3451-3 |
Barcode: |
9781529434514 |
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