| The Missing Contributor(s): Gautreaux, Tim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307454681 ISBN-13: 9780307454683 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.34" W x 7.92" (0.62 lbs) 384 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a little girl is kidnapped on Sam's watch he is haunted by guilt, grief, and ghosts from his own troubled past. Determined to find her, Sam sets out on a journey through a world of music and violence, where riverboats teem with drinking and dancing, and where dark swamplands conceal those who choose to live by their own laws. With the fate of the stolen child looming, The Missing vividly depicts an America lurching away from war, where civilization is only beginning to penetrate the hinterlands, and a man must choose between compassion and vengeance. |