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Algonquin Books
July 2016
On Sale: June 21, 2016
352 pages
ISBN: 1616205717
EAN: 9781616205713
Kindle: B013JBH8A6
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Suspense | Thriller | Mystery
Calvin Sidey is always ready to run, and it doesn’t take
much to set him in motion. As a young man, he ran from
this block, from Gladstone, from Montana, from this
country. From his family and the family business. He ran
from sadness, and he ran from responsibility. If the
gossip was true, he ran from the law. It’s 1963, and Calvin Sidey, one of the last of the old
cowboys, has long ago left his family to live a life of
self-reliance out on the prairie. He’s been a mostly
absentee father and grandfather until his estranged son
asks him to stay with his grandchildren, Ann and Will,
for a week while he and his wife are away. So Calvin
agrees to return to the small town where he once was a
mythic figure, to the very home he once abandoned. But trouble soon comes to the door when a boy’s
attentions to seventeen-year-old Ann become increasingly
aggressive and a group of reckless kids portend danger
for eleven-year-old Will. Calvin knows only one way to
solve problems: the Old West way, in which scores are
settled and ultimatums are issued and your gun is always
loaded. And though he has a powerful effect on those
around him--from the widowed neighbor who has fallen
under his spell to Ann and Will, who see him as the man
who brings a sudden and violent order to their lives--in
the changing culture of the 1960s, Calvin isn’t just a
relic; he’s a wild card, a danger to himself and those
who love him. In As Good as Gone, Larry Watson captures our longing for
the Old West and its heroes, and he challenges our
understanding of loyalty and justice. Both tough and
tender, it is a stunning achievement.
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