Details
The Layout
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10,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Iuniverse |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 13.07.2011 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781462007585 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 464 |
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Beschreibungen
When a Depression-era southern town suffers a series of inexplicable tragedies, life is interrupted for its denizensincluding a womanizing mayor, the abused wife of a sullen locomotive engineer, an honest but compromised police chief, a minister that seems to levitate, a dying junk dealer, a Black preacher caught between two worlds, a brutal company guard, a diminutive railroad executive and master manipulator, and a group of church ladies prone to gossip.
Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a sister intent upon giving him a normal life.
What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the fictions we create and how we come to believe them.
Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a sister intent upon giving him a normal life.
What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the fictions we create and how we come to believe them.
A socially inept widower with an obsession for trains embarks on a powerful yet humorous journey through human frailty to discover his true mission in life.
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