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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
Fool's Parade
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Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 5WZ35Q9
EAN: 9781572331143
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Zustellung: Di, 07.07.2026
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Beschreibung
Set in the Appalachian backcountry in the midst of the Great Depression, Fools' Parade traces the adventures of three ex-convicts who become involved in a wild and woolly chase along the Ohio River. Convicted murderer Mattie Appleyard has just served forty-seven years in Glory Penitentiary. His release puts him in possession of a check for $25,452. 32 - the result of his having salted away his meager earnings in the Prisoner's Work-and-Hope Savings Plan of the local bank. With his friends Johnny Jesus and Lee Cottrill, he plans to open a general store that will compete with the company store in Stonecoal, West Virginia. Unfortunately, banker Homer Grindstaff, prison guard Uncle Doc Council, and Sheriff Duane Ewing have no intention of allowing Mattie to realize his ambitions. Mattie's efforts to cash his check set a deadly pursuit in motion and introduce the reader to a host of colorful characters and a vividly recreated regional and historical background. Good and evil meet head-on in this novel that is, by turns, warm and humorous, rousing and tumultuous.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Davis Grubb
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2001
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 332