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The Bartender's Tale.
by DOIG, Ivan. [1939-2015]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
- Seller
-
Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered spine, blue-gray paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” ( The Daily Beast ). Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own. The Bartender’s Tale wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18802
- Title
- The Bartender's Tale.
- Author
- DOIG, Ivan. [1939-2015]
- Format/Binding
- Blue paper-covered spine, blue-gray paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2012.
- Pages
- 387 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
Orpheus Books
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
Biblio member since 2004
Edmonds, Washington
About Orpheus Books
We specialize exclusively in First Edition/First Printing books. Our best books are rated very fine and we are most conservative in our grading. We take pride in maintaining a significant selection of fine books. Your trust is of great importance to us and everything we sell is guaranteed. Archival dust jacket covers are provided with all hardcover books.
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