Results for: books tagged ‘Small town Life’
We Are Still Married: Garrison Keillor
We Are Still Married is Garrison Keillor at his best. Here are tales of love lost and found, letters on marriage and fatherhood, together with reflections on cigarette-smoking, baseball and ... More
The Man Who Wasn't There: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
The Coens return to the film noir terrain of their debut Blood Simple in this twisting tale of infidelity, blackmail and death. Set in northern California in the late 1940s, ... More
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956: Garrison Keillor
A hilarious coming-of-age novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 serves up the world according to 14-year-old Gary, an endearing geek, a self-described 'tree-toad', and a writer in the making whose best ... More
Lake Wobegon Days: Garrison Keillor
Lake Wobegon Days is the marvellous chronicle of an imaginary place located somewhere in the middle of the state (but not on the map) and named after an Indian word ... More
A Complicated Kindness: Miriam Toews
Nomi Nickel lives with her father, Ray, in East Village, a small Mennonite town in Manitoba. She dreams of escaping to the big city, but since her mother and sister ... More
Pumpgirl: Abbie Spallen
There's one in every town, and they call her the Pumpgirl. She works in the garage, changes the oil and thinks she's one of the lads. She's sweet on 'No-helmet' ... More
A Boy of Good Breeding: Miriam Toews
Knute is a twenty-four-year old-single mother who returns home to Algren with her daughter, Summer Feelin’ to look after her father Tom, who has suffered a heart attack. Hosea Funk, ... More
2000 Feet Away: Anthony Weigh
Shakespeare in Love star Joseph Fiennes treads the boards once again and leads in impressive cast in the Australian playwright's tense drama about crime, punishmen, fear and intolerance. More
Wednesday Early Closing: Norman Nicholson
In this autobiography Norman Nicholson vividly recaptures long-past times and places and demonstrates their compelling influence on the whole of his life. He details with loving precision a picture of ... More
Bump in the Night: Colin Watson
Detective Inspector Purbright of the Flaxborough police force is used to a life of quietude in a small market town, yet he knows that behind the outward respectability of typical ... More
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