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Author:

Watson, Larry, 1947- author.

Title:

As good as gone / a novel by Larry Watson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Workman Pub Co

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

400 p. ;

Subject:

Grandfathers--Family relationships--Fiction.
Grandparent and child--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Montana--Fiction.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Adult fiction on order

Indexed by:

LA6A
LI6A

ISBN:

1616205717 : HRD
9781616205713 : HRD

LCCN:

2015034265

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