A tumultuous novel about America's loss of innocence in the late
Sixties. Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They
walk out, they run away... they die. When his oldest friend Mel
Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines picks up the
thread and sets out to ask 'who?' and 'why?' But this is America in
1969 and one death is just a drop in the ocean. The USA is about to
land a man on the moon and the Vietnam War is ripping the country to
pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. The
Woodstock festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as
candidate for Mayor of New York. Against this backdrop, Raines'
questions take him back to the childhood home he left in Texas, back
to the battered remains of his youth... and as his memory unravels,
America unravels with it.
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ISBN
9781611859744
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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