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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100151001723
ISBN-139780151001729
eBay Product ID (ePID)2296344
Product Key Features
Book TitleGypsy Man
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2002
TopicPsychological, Family Life, Thrillers / Suspense
GenreFiction
AuthorRobert Bausch
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight28.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-005649
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPRAISE FORA HOLE IN THE EARTH "A splendid novel, original in the best sense . . . raising the kinds of questions that families are always asking."--The New York Times Book Review "A courageous and beautiful book--moving, tragic, wise, but also starkly and necessarily comic."--The Washington Post Book World "A beautiful and aching novel, alarming in its wisdom and treatment of one of the great terrors, loneliness, and one of the great mercies, forgiveness."--Rick Bass, "...one of those rare books that not only sees you through unbearable losses, it almost blinds you with love"---Cathleen Medwick, O, The Oprah Magazine, PRAISE FOR THE GYPSY MAN "Has all the makings of a good bluegrass song; men in trouble with the law, lonesome women, hard times, tattered dreams."-The New York Times Book Review "Being inside the minds of these characters is an experience so intimate that . . . [it] not only sees you through unbearable losses, it almost blinds you with love."-O Magazine "Affecting. Moves smoothly and unpredictably. Bausch [writes] with consummate style."-The Washington Post Book World, PRAISE FOR A HOLE IN THE EARTH "A splendid novel, original in the best sense . . . raising the kinds of questions that families are always asking."-- The New York Times Book Review "A courageous and beautiful book--moving, tragic, wise, but also starkly and necessarily comic."-- The Washington Post Book World "A beautiful and aching novel, alarming in its wisdom and treatment of one of the great terrors, loneliness, and one of the great mercies, forgiveness."--Rick Bass
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThe motto of Crawford, Virginia, might well be Beware what you fear, because it may come true. Penny Bone is terrified of the town's local legend of a child-stealing phantom. Henry Gault, her six-year-old daughter's teacher, scoffs at the tale, trusting in reason and foresight to safeguard what is most precious to him. Penny's husband, John, is in prison for an accidental murder that happened because he was trying to be too careful. And in prison he will, almost accidentally, become a hero, which makes him prey to what he fears most--hope. An eerie succession of events will take these people into the bull's-eye of risk that everyday life presents. While the Gypsy Man may be just one of Crawford's myths, John and Penny Bone are as real as the rising sun, and their strength, separately and together, reminds us why life is worth living. The Gypsy Man , and its durable and enduring characters, illuminates how an elusive truth lives behind every legend., The motto of Crawford, Virginia, might well be" Beware what you fear, because it may come true." Penny Bone is terrified of the town's local legend of a child-stealing phantom. Henry Gault, her six-year-old daughter's teacher, scoffs at the tale, trusting in reason and foresight to safeguard what is most precious to him. Penny's husband, John, is in prison for an accidental murder that happened because he was trying to be too careful. And in prison he will, almost accidentally, become a hero, which makes him prey to what he fears most--hope. An eerie succession of events will take these people into the bull's-eye of risk that everyday life presents. While the Gypsy Man may be just one of Crawford's myths, John and Penny Bone are as real as the rising sun, and their strength, separately and together, reminds us why life is worth living. "The" "Gypsy Man," and its durable and enduring characters, illuminates how an elusive truth lives behind every legend., The motto of Crawford, Virginia, might well beBeware what you fear, because it may come true.Penny Bone is terrified of the town's local legend of a child-stealing phantom. Henry Gault, her six-year-old daughter's teacher, scoffs at the tale, trusting in reason and foresight to safeguard what is most precious to him. Penny's husband, John, is in prison for an accidental murder that happened because he was trying to be too careful. And in prison he will, almost accidentally, become a hero, which makes him prey to what he fears most--hope. An eerie succession of events will take these people into the bull's-eye of risk that everyday life presents. While the Gypsy Man may be just one of Crawford's myths, John and Penny Bone are as real as the rising sun, and their strength, separately and together, reminds us why life is worth living.TheGypsy Man, and its durable and enduring characters, illuminates how an elusive truth lives behind every legend.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.A847G97 2002
