Description
A Southeast Booksellers Association Best Book of the Year
Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to tend to his ailing mother, and clean out his deceased father's workroom. What he discovers there leads him--and the reader--on an unforgettable journey through the secret life of Jess's father, Joe Robert, which culminates in a moment of profound mystery and comedy.Author: Fred Chappell
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 10/06/2000
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.50w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780312243104
ISBN10: 0312243103
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Southern
About the Author
Fred Chappell is the award-winning author of over twenty books of poetry and fiction. His previous novels include I Am One of You Forever and Brighten the Corner Where You Are. He teaches at the University of North Carolina in Grennsboro, where he lives with his wife Susan.
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