Crackpots: A NovelHarperCollins, 2003 M08 17 - 212 páginas When we first meet Ruby Reese she’s a spunky kid in a cowgirl hat, tap dancing her way through a slightly off-kilter 1950s childhood. With an insomniac mother and a demolitions-expert father, her entire family is what the residents of her small town would call "a bunch of crackpots." Despite the dramas of her upbringing, Ruby matures into a creative, introspective, and wholly beguiling woman. But her adulthood is marked by complex relationships and romantic missteps -- three unsuitable marriages, dramatic crushes, the complicated love between siblings. As Sara Pritchard deftly guides us through Ruby's story, from the present to the past and back again, a portrait of a remarkably resilient woman emerges. Suffused with humor and melancholy, imagination and insight, Crackpots heralds the debut of a skilled and sensitive storyteller. |
Contenido
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Stardust | 24 |
Shuffle Off to Buffalo | 52 |
Out on the Jackson Tract | 60 |
The Blue Hat | 77 |
Postcards from Portland | 121 |
The Man with the RefrigeratorSize Hole in His Heart | 133 |
The Festival of Ideas | 135 |
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out | 139 |
When Harry Houdini Came to Dinner | 165 |
Back Matter | 189 |
Back Cover | 197 |
Spine | 198 |