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A taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is th...
| Main Author: | Offutt, Chris, 1958- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY :
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: |
A taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, |
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| Physical Description: |
231 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780802127792 0802127797 |
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