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Hemingway (Paperback)
Dan Johnson, Travis Erwin; Introduction by Walt Wilkins
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R473
Discovery Miles 4 730
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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A tarnished name and a bitter heart. That's all Angela Ross took
when she fled Texas fifteen years ago as a teenager. Now, she's
back to take care of her grandmother's estate. But in a town like
Grand, where reputation means much more than the truth, some sins
are never forgotten much less forgiven. Shelly Sampson has worked
hard to cultivate her image as reigning queen of Grand, but she
knows long kept secrets mean her crown is precarious at best. And
nothing could knock her tiara off faster than a chill wind from the
past ...Like the return of Angela Ross. Left with nothing but an
old house and painful memories, Angela soon takes a job at the
local tavern owned by Lucas Cahill hoping to earn enough to leave
this town behind for good. Lucas still holds the same flame for
Shelly Sampson that he had in high school and though she welcomes
his attention, he can't understand why she won't leave her rocky
marriage behind to finally give them a chance at happiness. Once
Angela, Shelly's old arch rival, enters the picture as Lucas' new
employee Shelly's desperation to keep her life and secrets intact
starts a chain reaction whose outcome no one in Grand could have
ever predicted.
Welcome to Pearl's Feed and Seed Most coming-of-age stories are
fraught with symbolism, hidden metaphors, and a heaping mound of
other literary devices. Not this one. Not mine. You see, I came of
age while working at a dusty Texas feedstore. A place where To Kill
a Mockingbird involved a twelve-year-old and a BB gun. Of Mice and
Men was a problem easily solved with rat poison. And David
Copperfield was nothing more than a dude that made shit disappear.
In the spring of 1989, I went to work at Pearl's Feed and Seed for
a man named Doyle Suggs. On the surface Doyle and I had little in
common: I was a rosy-cheeked boy of sixteen; he was a
twice-divorced, thirty-year-old high school dropout. I had yet to
go on my first date; he was trading sex for horse feed in the back
room. Sure, Doyle was a lout, a liar, and a lecherous derelict. To
this day, he remains the most morally bankrupt man I've ever met,
yet my life wouldn't be half as blessed, had I missed out on his
misguided education. The Feedstore Chronicles is a mostly true
account of those days and when murderous ex-wives, well-hung
bulldogs, and feed room fornication were all part of a normal day
at Pearl's.
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