Seed: A Novel - Brossura

Crawford, Stanley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 157366183X ISBN 13: 9781573661836

Casa editrice: Fc2/Black Ice Books, 2015

Riassunto

Seed is the story of Bill Starr’s final days. Childless but with a lifetime’s worth of possessions and a nearly infinite web of extended family, Bill endeavors to empty his house completely before he dies by summoning distant relatives to claim their inheritance. Many of his letters go unanswered, but those who do appear show up only to find that their reward is often much less valuable than they might expect.
 
What they get instead are Bill’s memories, made vivid by each item from the past, memories that are more exotic and curious than the lives currently lived by his young relatives.
 
Accompanied by his housekeeper, Ramona, and his young gardener, Jonathan, Bill is a somewhat cantankerous, wildly intelligent, and often forgetful man who recalls and speaks to his passed wife, often thinking that she's not dead. His unwillingness to recognize what has happened to her and to give away his only possession of any value, a 1937 Pierce-Arrow automobile that they bought together, becomes the measure of his grief and of his love in this profoundly funny novel that faces death and love sincerely.

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L'autore:

Stanley Crawford was born in 1937 and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He is the author of several novels, among them Petroleum Man, Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine, Travel Notes, and Gascoyne, as well as the memoirs A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm and Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. He is coproprietor with his wife, Rose Mary Crawford, of El Bosque Garlic Farm in Dixon, New Mexico.

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• Editore: Fc2/Black Ice Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 157366183X
• ISBN 13: 9781573661836
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 181