Fourth of July Creek

by Smith Henderson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099559374 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingBookworm-ladywing of Madrid, Madrid Spain on 1/13/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by wingBookworm-ladywing from Madrid, Madrid Spain on Sunday, January 13, 2019
"Tenmile, Montana. By day, social worker Pete Snow attempts to improve the lives of the town's most deprived families. By night, he endeavours to repair his own life and the lives of his estranged wife and daughter."

"This stunning debut novel about broken lives in rural Montana crackles with the intensity of a Tom Waits song."
Jeff VanderMeer

"What should you give up on and what should you hold on to? What will forever remain damaged and what fades into scar tissue? Smith Henderson's stunning debut novel, Fourth of July Creek, explores these questions, offered up with a richness of character and language. Set primarily in rural Montana from 1979 to 1981, the novel exists in that interesting period of transition from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, from oil shortages and hostage crises to "trickle-down economics" and the end of the cold war.

Fourth of July Creek's main character, social worker Pete Snow, is also in transition, both in his job and personal life. Navigating a terrain of loss and danger, Pete tries to rescue the children of a dysfunctional, drug‑hazed mother but cannot save his relationship with his estranged wife Rose and daughter.
Into this maelstrom strides Jeremiah Pearl with his son, Ben. The elder Pearl is a bona fide conspiracy theorist, complete with Old Testament underpinnings, who has forced his version of reality on the half-feral Ben. In that counterfactual landscape, political assassinations become a sign of the end times, and living rough in the wilderness raises the finger to a devil-aligned, jack-booted federal government."

Rescued from a second-hand furniture shop, in almost mint condition.

Journal Entry 2 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Thursday, February 14, 2019
Reserved for collectorkerr's First Sentences VBB.

Journal Entry 3 by wingBookworm-ladywing at Madrid, Madrid Spain on Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Released 5 yrs ago (3/27/2019 UTC) at Madrid, Madrid Spain

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Sent today to Icila, who picked it from the First Sentences Virtual VBB; I hope this book will be a pleasant surprise for you, and you enjoy reading it. :)

Journal Entry 4 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Saturday, March 30, 2019
The postman just rode to our doorstep and delivered it in hands.
The enveloppe was torn open but not entirely and the book is safe.
It seems that I did make a good choice. I'm really looking forward to reading it. (After some bookrings though.)
Thank you Bookworm-Lady.

Journal Entry 5 by wingIcilawing at Nantes, Pays de la Loire France on Monday, September 20, 2021
Not for me, sorry.

This book needs a new home. Happy reading !

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