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020 $a1582433186 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS3568.E26825$bM47 2004
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aReardon, Lisa.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98034494
245 14 $aThe mercy killers :$ba novel /$cLisa Reardon.
260 $aNew York :$bCounterpoint,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a256 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a""On a rainy evening in the spring of 1967, Old Jerry hunkers on his bar stool like a liquor-soaked question mark."" "So begins the story of Old Jerry, seventy years of age, a lifetime drunk, and ready to die. His grandson Charlie has troubles of his own: the scars of a father's rages, a long juvenile record that includes burglary and assault, and his older brother P.T., who lives in another world with the ghost of their long-dead mother. When Old Jerry fails to show up for his birthday party at McGurk's Tap Room, the two brothers are the first among Jerry's tight group of friends to ask questions. But the discovery of the old man's body in a nearby lake raises more questions than it answers - and the fallout will send one man to war in Vietnam, and leave everyone else to try and pick up the pieces." "In the dusky world of a working-class Midwestern city, at a time of social and political chaos, The Mercy Killers tells a chilling story of the actions that we take in the name of love, and the revisionist histories we spin from our own past."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aYpsilanti (Mich.)$vFiction.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3568.E26825$iM47 2004