Lord of the Barnyard: Killing the Fatted Calf and Arming the Aware in the Corn Belt  -  Egolf, Tristan

killing the fatted calf and arming the aware in the Corn Belt

KORTE INHOUD

Tristan Egolf's first novel is an unsparing view of life in a town where inbred Appalachia and Middle America overlap and intermingle. John Kaltenbrunner, an only child, is born on the heels of his father's death. At an unusually early age, the boy shows a flair for farming and a desire to be left alone, two things that make people pick on him in increasingly vicious ways. John's life plan is to drop out of school when he hits 16 and mind his own business. But he loses everything, alienates everyone, and th...
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1998 Uitgever: Picador 410 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0330368303 ISBN-13: 9780330368308