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Snapper, May 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Pantheon Books
May 2013
On Sale: April 23, 2013
210 pages ISBN: 0307908054 EAN: 9780307908056 Kindle: B009Y4I4I8 Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction
A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant,
all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in
the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet
heartening love affair with the place and its
people. Nathan Lochmueller studies birds,
earning just enough money to live on. He drives a
glitter-festooned truck, the Gypsy Moth, and he is in
love with Lola, a woman so free-spirited and mysterious she
can break a man’s heart with a sigh or a shrug. Around them
swirls a remarkable cast of characters: the proprietor of
Fast Eddie’s Burgers & Beer, the genius behind “Thong
Thursdays”; Uncle Dart, a Texan who brings his swagger to
Indiana with profound and nearly devastating results; a
snapping turtle with a taste for thumbs; a German shepherd
who howls backup vocals; and the very charismatic state of
Indiana itself. And at the center of it all is Nathan,
creeping through the forest to observe the birds he loves
and coming to terms with the accidental turns his life has
taken.
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