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Viking
July 2013
On Sale: July 11, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 0670025070
EAN: 9780670025077
Kindle: B00AFPVQV2
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Contemporary
From a widely admired author, a poignant novel about
homecoming, friendship, growing up, and growing old for fans
of Richard Ford and Richard Russo
In this
finely wrought portrait of western American life, Ron
Carlson takes us to the small town of Oakpine, Wyoming, and
into the lives of four men trying to make peace with who
they are in the world.
In high school, these men
were in a band. One of them, Jimmy, left Oakpine for New
York City after the tragic death of his brother. A
successful novelist, he has returned thirty years later, in
1999—because he is dying.
With Carlson’s characteristic
grace, we learn what has become of these friends and the
different directions of their lives. Craig and Frank never
left; Mason, a top lawyer in Denver, is back in town to fix
up and sell his parents’ house. Now that they are reunited,
getting the band back together might be the most important
thing they can do.
Return to Oakpine is a
generous, tender look at friendship, family, and the roads
not taken, by a writer at the peak of his craft.
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