Spooner

by Pete Dexter

2020-12-29 04:51:17

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor''s office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his ... Read more
Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor''s office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service.

This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner''s troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson''s inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand. Less

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File size8 X 5.25 X 1.5 in
Print pages496
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
Publication date October 25, 2010
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780446540735
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Pete Dexter (born July 22, 1943) is an American novelist. Dexter won the U.S. National Book Award in 1988 for his novel Paris Trout. He was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, The Sacramento ...

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