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The Flicker of Old Dreams - A Novel (Paperback)
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The Flicker of Old Dreams - A Novel (Paperback)
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List price R505
Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
You Save R63 (12%)
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High Plains Book Award Winner for Fiction * Western Writers of
America Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western Novel *
WILLA Literary Award Winner in Contemporary Fiction * Montana Book
Award Honor Book With the quiet precision of Jane Smiley's A
Thousand Acres and the technical clarity of Mary Roach's Stiff,
this is a novel about a young woman who comes most alive while
working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western
town. "The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and
secrets . . . " Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in
Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain
company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's
mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider.
Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling
each body to capture the essence of a subject's life. Though some
townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that
Petroleum is crumbling away-a process that began twenty years ago
when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school
athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in
town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely
blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out
of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill
mother. After Mary-reserved, introspective, and deeply
lonely-strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the
locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she
dared to leave Petroleum. Set in the American West, The Flicker of
Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty
in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.
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