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02439aam a2200349 i 4500 001 8754B80CD86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240302011431 008 210714s2023 onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1550969617 020 $a 9781550969610 035 $a (OCoLC)1260193309 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d NLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 042 $a lac 050 4 $a PR9199.3.C266 $b N48 2023 050 $a PR9199.3.C266 $b N48 2023 055 0 $a PS8555.A49 $b N48 2023 082 0 $a C813/.54 $2 23/eng/20231128 100 1 $a Callaghan, Barry, $d 1937- $e author. 245 10 $a Never's just the echo of forever / $c Barry Callaghan. 246 3 $a Never is just the echo of forever 264 1 $a Holstein, Ontario : $b Exile Editions, $c [2023] 300 $a 126 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 0 $a Sweetwater Calhoun ; $v 1 520 $a This is the story of 29-year-old Albie Starbach, a reclusive man who is the caretaker of a large rooming house, with a day job as a crossing guard, going out three times a day to look after school children. He is a caring man. But he is also a dangerous man... living in a world that to him is threatening because he feels he has been wronged, and he is resentful. He has wired the rooming house with dynamite, and every time he goes out he sets a timer. He had better get back in time, without interference or difficulty, or the house will blow. Often, it is not easy to get back; out on the streets desperado cowboys in the trees talk to him, "working women" taunt him, the police accost him. His only companion is his legless mother who, in a wheelchair in their basement rooms, conducts day-long derisive arguments with the television, as if all those people were alive in her room. Living together at the bottom of their world, mother and son feed each other their rage, their righteous indignation, their sense of moral singularity. Determinedly alone, determinedly wounded, they are embattled, and their story is very much a story of our time, and the world had better watch out because this caretaker is prepared to take everyone with him. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format 550 $a WorldShare provided record 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Psychological. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 1 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240302011801.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8754B80CD86411EE9510A68C40ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search