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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Beyond The Pavement

Beyond The Pavement

Drake, Albert

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 0936892250
ISBN13: 9780936892252
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 5 2011
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Mill Sederstrom steps into a time warp when he returns from college to the small house where he grew up. But the world has changed, and Mill learns that one can't go home again-- not easily, nor completely anyway. Family pressures mount as his parents urge him to find the Big Job. He meets his younger brother, Tonto, and his gang--the pavement dancers, a lethal group. A woman takes him to a roadhouse called The Place, but it is not his place, the gangster who owns it tells him. The tension between brothers grows when Mill becomes involved with Tonto's girl friend. The uncomplicated life Mill had hoped for soon becomes complicated, and when serious trouble threatens he has no idea which of the several antagonists is responsible. Selected as one of the 100 books that best define the state of Oregon and its people by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, Beyond the Pavement is an adult novel about hot rodding and changing times. Set in the Lents neighborhood of Portland, Oregon in the '50s, Drake weaves local landmarks and historical events into a book that is both literary, and evokes the pulp fictions of the past.

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