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Show Me Good Land
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ISBN10: 0892729163
ISBN13: 9780892729166
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: Apr 16 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.67
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780892729166
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: Apr 16 2011
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.77 Depth: 8.67
Language: English
Set in fictional Fort Angus, Maine, Show Me Good Land tells the story of a small rural town struggling with poverty and decay after decades of prosperity. Loosely linked through a grisly murder, its characters must navigate the ambiguous moral landscape of a waning community. It is a moving, sometimes melancholy, often funny novel about family, community, loss, redemption, and coming home. The pleasure lies in exploring the personalities of the characters, none of whom are all good or all bad, and eventually deciding where the reader's own moral lines are drawn. Not since Carolyn Chute's The Beans of Egypt, Maine, has a cast of characters been so shocking, beautifully rendered, and ultimately likeable.
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