| Spooner Contributor(s): Dexter, Pete (Author) |
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ISBN: 0446540730 ISBN-13: 9780446540735 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.34" H x 5.34" W x 7.95" (0.89 lbs) 496 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand. |