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Watson, Larry, 1947- author.
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Grandfathers -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Montana -- Fiction.
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As good as gone : a ...
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As good as gone : a novel / Larry Watson.
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Watson, Larry, 1947- author.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2016.
Subjects
Grandfathers -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Montana -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616205713 (hardcover)
1616205717 (hardcover)
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341 pages ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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"Calvin Sidey is a cowboy of the old-school, no-guff sort--steely, hardened, with his own personal code. It's the 1960s, and he's living off the grid in a stifling trailer on the prairie when his adult son, Bill, seeks his help. A mostly absentee father, and a virtual no-show as a grandfather, Calvin nevertheless reluctantly agrees to stay with his grandchildren for a week. He decamps for his son's dark and musty basement, to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, and soon enough problems arise: a boy's attentions to seventeen-year-old Ann are increasingly aggressive, and a group of reckless kids portend danger for eleven-year-old Will. Calvin only knows one way to solve a problem: the Old West way, in which scores are settled, ultimatums are issued, and your gun is always loaded. In the changing culture of the 1960s, Calvin isn't just a relic, he's a wild card and a threat. With the crisp, restrained prose for which Larry Watson is revered, As Good As Gone is moving without being sentimental, a powerful story of a man increasingly at odds with the world. This is Larry Watson at his best."--
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