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Reynolds
Donley Watt
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Description for Reynolds
Hardcover. Reynolds is a 40-something liquor-store owner in East Texas, with a bible-beating mother and a brother who illegally sells automatic weapons. This novel captures small-town East Texas, its attitudes and habits and language, with a wonderful sense of place. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Reynolds is a forty-something liquor-store owner on Clear Creek Lake, near Cottonwood, in East Texas. Once he was a banker, but the real estate scandals of the '80s taught him he had trusted the wrong people and brought him within a hair of an indictment. Once he had a wife and twin sons, but she left after the scandal, taking the boys to her daddy's ranch in West Texas. Now Reynolds owns Lake Country Liquor Store and lives in a trailer behind the store, with several women passing through his life for intermittent periods. He's satisfied - but a little ... Read more
Reynolds is a forty-something liquor-store owner on Clear Creek Lake, near Cottonwood, in East Texas. Once he was a banker, but the real estate scandals of the '80s taught him he had trusted the wrong people and brought him within a hair of an indictment. Once he had a wife and twin sons, but she left after the scandal, taking the boys to her daddy's ranch in West Texas. Now Reynolds owns Lake Country Liquor Store and lives in a trailer behind the store, with several women passing through his life for intermittent periods. He's satisfied - but a little ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652566
SKU
V9780875652566
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About Donley Watt
DONLEY WATT has lived in Texas most of his life. He is the author of three books - Can You Get There from Here? - a collection of short stories that won the Steven F. Turner Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for the best first work of fiction in 1994; the novella The Journey of Hector Rabinal, and ... Read more
Reviews for Reynolds
It's rare these days to find a character in fiction who seems at once as unique and particularized as flesh-and-blood and richly resonant in the best of literary ways. Reynolds is such a character. Donley Watt's new novel is a terrific tour de force. - Robert Olen Butler