Also by Paul Hawkins:
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- Angels and Electrons: A Sub-Suburb Tale
- The Party at the End of the World – A Dream Vision and Fragment
- Zoomobile 3000
- Nihilism Sucks: Of Human Hope and Larry’s Hail Mary Pass in the Craigslist Personals
- High Crimes and Mr. Wieners
- Punchafish
- Middleburg: a Zeppelin-Friendly Community
- A Cure for All Known Diseases
- Short and Stupid: Ten Somewhat Dark Short Stories for a Rainy Day
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Published: Feb. 07, 2011
Words: 89,836 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458022950
Short description
Recounting 1939, the birth of a superpower, the twilight of a mostly rural America, and the misbegotten adventures of the last man in the world to know everything except what to do with himself. Comedy, romance, and drama unfold when a dissipated millionaire returns from Europe to his childhood home just in time to interfere with a rural electrifcation project and reawaken the town's old secrets.Extended description
Recounting 1939, the birth of a superpower, the twilight of a mostly rural America, and the misbegotten adventures of the last man in the world to know everything except what to do with himself. Comedy, romance, and drama unfold when a dissipated millionaire returns from Europe to his childhood home just in time to interfere with a rural electrifcation project and reawaken the town's old secrets."A well written, engrossing spiderweb of a tale. Yes, you can go home again, but then you find indeed why you left in the first place."
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hemingway, romance, love, drama, comedy, humor, river, rich, rural, america, picaresque, oklahoma, expatriate, 1939, brooks brothers, theosophist, electrification, panama hat, woody guthrie, verdegrisAvailable ebook reading formats
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Review by:
Tony Bishop
on Nov. 23, 2011 :
A love letter to the twentieth century. While other are splashing in puddles of their own self-pity, Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a requiem for the lost potential of the American Century.
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