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001 4090284
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008 030617s2003 nyu 000 1 eng d
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035 $a(NNC)4090284
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100 1 $aGautreaux, Tim.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96041039
245 14 $aThe clearing /$cTim Gautreaux.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2003.
300 $a305 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"In the years before World War I, Byron Aldridge led a charmed life as the charismatic heir apparent to a Pennsylvania timber empire; and to his younger brother, Randolph, he was both guide and idol. But he returned from France a different man and was not home long before those festering memories sent him drifting from one settlement to another, working as a lawman, and then disappearing altogether.".
520 8 $a"Finally his family discovers him in a remote Louisiana mill town, promptly buys the property, and puts Randolph in charge of this place unlike any he has ever seen, where men are surrounded by cypress swamps and menace, leading lives of ceaseless, backbreaking toil punctuated only by the brutal entertainments provided by the Sicilians who control the whiskey and card games and girls, and by the rough justice meted out by the still-tormented Byron.
520 8 $aRandolph struggles to understand him, and to regain his trust, even as their wives presently contend with their own hopes and disappointments and while the future grows uncertain yet fearsome all around them."--BOOK JACKET.
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