Book
Wyoming / JP Gritton.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781947793446
- ISBN: 1947793446
- Physical Description: 236 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | It's 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He's broke, he's been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next-door neighbor and a new life in Kansas City. The only opportunity on his horizon is 50 pounds of his brother's high-grade marijuana, which needs to be driven from Colorado to Houston and exchanged for a lockbox full of cash. The delivery goes off without a hitch, but getting home with the money proves to be a different challenge altogether. Fueled by a grab bag of resentments and self punishment, Shelley becomes a case study in the question of whether it's possible to live without accepting yourself, and the dope money is the key to a lock he might never find. |
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| Subject: | Marijuana > Fiction. Drug traffic > Fiction. Brothers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.
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0 current holds with 2 total copies.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | Fiction Gritton (Text) | 31307024110738 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Van Belkum | Fiction Gritton (Text) | 31307024110720 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Wyoming
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Summary
Wyoming
A Kirkus Best Fiction of 2019 Pick! A cross between Daniel Woodrell and Annie Proulx, Wyoming is about the stubborn grip of inertia and whether or not it is possible to live without accepting oneself. It's 1988 and Shelley Cooper is in trouble. He's broke, he's been fired from his construction job, and his ex-wife has left him for their next door neighbor and a new life in Kansas City. The only opportunity on his horizon is fifty pounds of his brother's high-grade marijuana, which needs to be driven from Colorado to Houston and exchanged for a lockbox full of cash. The delivery goes off without a hitch, but getting home with the money proves to be a different challenge altogether. Fueled by a grab bag of resentments and self punishment, Shelley becomes a case study in the question of whether it's possible to live without accepting yourself, and the dope money is the key to a lock he might never find. JP Gritton's portrait of a hapless aspirant at odds with himself and everyone around him is both tender and ruthless, and Wyoming considers the possibility of redemption in a world that grants forgiveness grudgingly, if at all.
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