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ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART
By: Ed Tarkington
Algonquin Books
January 2016
On Sale: January 1, 2016
Featuring: Rocky; Paul
ISBN: 161620382X
EAN: 9781616203825
Kindle: B00U6YR0H6
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Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother Paul--sixteen and full of rebel cool, smoking cigarettes, driving around in his Nova blasting Neil Young--until the day Paul, in an act of vengeance against their father, picks Rocky up from school and nearly leaves him for dead in the woods. Paul then runs off with his beautiful, fragile girlfriend, never to be heard from again. Seven years later Rocky is a teenager himself. Although heβs never forgotten the abandonment of his boyhood hero, heβs now getting over it, with the help of the wealthy neighborsβ daughter, ten years his senior, who has taken him as her lover. But the affair sets off a sequence of events that bring ruin to both families. In the spirit of Willie Morris, Tom Franklin, and Wiley Cash, this spellbinding debut draws you into a small-town American Gothic story of family fealty, scandal, and murder.
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