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Penguin
July 2012
On Sale: July 5, 2012
Featuring: Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams
272 pages
ISBN: 0525952799
EAN: 9780525952794
Kindle: B005OW8IJY
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Fiction Family Life
When Shakespeare Williams returns to his family’s farm in
eastern Colorado to bury his dead cat, he finds his widowed
and senile father Emmett living in squalor. He has no money,
the land is fallow, and a local banker has cheated his
father out of the majority of the farm equipment and his
beloved Cessna. With no job and no prospects, Shakespeare
suddenly finds himself caretaker to both his dad and the
farm, and drawn into an unlikely clique of old high school
classmates: Vaughn Atkins, a paraplegic confined to his
mother’s basement, Carissa McPhail, an overweight bank
teller who pitches for the local softball team, and longtime
bully D.J. Beckman, who now deals drugs throughout
small-town Dorsey. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare
hatches a half-serious plot with his father and his fellow
gang of misfits to rob the very bank that has stolen their
future. Mixing pathos and humor in equal measure, Gregory Hill’s
East of Denver is an unflinching novel of rural America, a
poignant, darkly funny tale about a father and son finding
their way together as their home and livelihood inexorably
disappears.
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