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Trombone

Trombone

Nova, Craig

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0802139132
ISBN13: 9780802139139
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: Jul 8 2002
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Craig Nova's classic novel Trombone is a powerful and poignant portrait of the complexities between an arsonist father and his good son. Dean Gollancz is an easygoing man of modest means. He longs for the Big Time, and when his job at the Print Shop doesn't pay the bills, he commits arson for a Chinese gangster in Los Angeles. His son Ray feels deep love and loyalty for his father, but when he wins an Ivy League scholarship, Ray must decide how much of his own life to sacrifice for Dean's respect. The destructive nature of their relationship is brought to the fore when Iris, a classmate of Ray's, becomes his father's lover. Longing for Iris and knowing he can never be like Dean, Ray must decide whether he even wants to be, and whether it is right to be that way at all. [Nova's novels] deserve to be ranked among the best American fiction of the past two decades. -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Trombone is a novel of crime, passion, adventure ... by one of our most acclaimed and prolific fiction writers. -- Howard Frank Mosher

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