Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0099559374 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0099559374 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Bookworm-lady of Madrid, Madrid Spain on 1/13/2019
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"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.
"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.
Reserved for collectorkerr's First Sentences VBB.
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. :)
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.
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.
Not for me, sorry.
Journal Entry 6 by Icila at Centre commercial Intermarché - Laverie in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France on Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (12/1/2021 UTC) at Centre commercial Intermarché - Laverie in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, Pays de la Loire France
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