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The Black Brook Paperback - 2000

by Drury, Tom

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"It was a dry, dusty summer day in New Hampshire. Paul and Mary Emmons were having lunch in a diner called Happy's when Mary happened to notice a dog in a car in the parking lot with his head turned upside down." Thus begins the strange and captivating saga of Paul Nash, a.k.a. Paul Emmons, a fallen accountant whose inadvisable return to New England, the region of his crimes, sets the stage for this darkly comic novel of love, death, guilt, redemption, and the various forms of clam chowder. More than a dog's head gets turned upside down in the course of Paul's transatlantic misadventures. Through it all Paul strives to find and accomplish his mission in life, and myriad characters contrive to tell their stories -- of unkept promises, nightmarish evenings, identities lost and found.

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  • Title The Black Brook
  • Author Drury, Tom
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Many
  • Date 2000-02-09
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 12356324-75
  • ISBN 9780395957950 / 0395957958
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.15 x 0.85 in (20.07 x 13.08 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98012843
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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"It was a dry, dusty summer day in New Hampshire. Paul and Mary Emmons were having lunch in a diner called Happy's when Mary happened to notice a dog in a car in the parking lot with his head turned upside down." Thus begins the strange and captivating saga of Paul Nash, a.k.a. Paul Emmons, a fallen accountant whose inadvisable return to New England, the region of his crimes, sets the stage for this darkly comic novel of love, death, guilt, redemption, and the various forms of clam chowder. More than a dog's head gets turned upside down in the course of Paul's transatlantic misadventures. Through it all Paul strives to find and accomplish his mission in life, and myriad characters contrive to tell their stories -- of unkept promises, nightmarish evenings, identities lost and found.

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"Every page of THE BLACK BROOK yields wonderful surprises -- of invention, of insight, of language." -- Richard Russo

"A unique voice, Drury will nonetheless appeal to fans of Richard Ford and Raymond Carver." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

"Is mild-mannered Paul the hapless victim of American social breakdown? Or is he the devious master of his own screwed-up destiny? Tom Drury ranks right up there with fellow Connecticut writer Robert Stone when it comes to depicting the futility of American wanderlust." Boston Herald

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