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Fireworks

By Winthrop, Elizabeth Hartley

Fireworks

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Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped for the summer, leaving him to pursue his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on neighbors; worrying about the fate of an abducted local girl; avoiding his editor, who is on the verge of rejecting his new collection of stories; and confronting as obliquely as possible the recent death of his young son. Meanwhile, he is spending more time with Jack Daniels and a stubbornly persistent stray dog than with anyone else, including his girlfriend Marissa, who has either abandoned him or been abandoned by him, he's not sure which. A tender and comic portrait of suburban despair, Fireworks details the events of one strange summer in which a man's troubled soul hangs in the balance. In her perceptive exploration of Hollis's disintegrating life, Elizabeth Winthrop gives us an unforgettably powerful portrait of an anguished man, one who is both endearingly flawed and vividly real.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
306
Release Date:
2007-07-10
Publication Date:
2007-07-10
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400096979
ISBN13:
9781400096978
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
344 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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