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An edition of Spooner (2009)

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Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.

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Grand Central Pub.
Language
English
Pages
469

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Literature, Stepfathers, Fathers and sons, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, family life, general
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2011, Atlantic
in English
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Spooner
2011, Atlantic Books, Limited
in English
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Spooner
2011, Éd. de l'Olivier
Texte imprimé / in French
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Spooner
2010, Atlantic
in English
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Spooner
October 25, 2010, Grand Central Publishing
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Spooner
2009-09, Grand Central Publishing
in English
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Spooner
Sep 24, 2009, Grand Central Publishing
hardcover
Cover of: Spooner
Spooner
2009, Grand Central Publishing
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: Spooner
Spooner
2009, Grand Central Pub.
in English

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New York
Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3554.E95 S66 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
469

Edition Identifiers

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OL23165060M
ISBN 13
9780446540728
LCCN
2009006087
OCLC/WorldCat
310224864
LibraryThing
8402828
Goodreads
6435049

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OL2915174W

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Work Description

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

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