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The Bartender's Tale
by Doig, Ivan
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. New. Latest novel by the author of English Creek and Dancing at the Rascal Fair.
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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- Seller
- Great Northern Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 4716
- Title
- The Bartender's Tale
- Author
- Doig, Ivan
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About Great Northern Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Uncorrected Proof
- An uncorrected proof is a printed copy of a book that needs to be reviewed for errors and corrections. They are released prior...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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