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The Bartender's Tale
by Ivan Doig
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
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About This Item
New York: Riverhead Books, 2012. Book. As New. Hardcover. Not Signed. 1st Edition. Riverhead Books, New York, 2012. Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition/First Printing as verified by McBride. Fresh and crisp straight from the bookstore shelf. No dings, marks or issues. Dust jack is not clipped has slight shelf wear and looks spectacular in its shiny mylar dust protector. .
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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- Bookseller
- Winding Road Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000459
- Title
- The Bartender's Tale
- Author
- Ivan Doig
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594487359
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487354
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Literary Fiction Western
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