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When a Depression-era southern town suffers a series of inexplicable tragedies, life is interrupted for its denizens-including a womanizing mayor, the abused wife of a sullen locomotive engineer, an honest but compromised police chief, a minister that seems to levitate, a dying junk dealer, a Black preacher caught between two worlds, a brutal company guard, a diminutive railroad executive and master manipulator, and a group of church ladies prone to gossip. Seventy years later, in Southern California, these stories are interwoven into the social trials of Taylor Bedskirt, a solitary widower with an obsession for trains, who falls desperately under the spell of an aggressive and careworn waitress, earns cautious acclaim from like-minded enthusiasts, and attempts to ward off a sister intent upon giving him a "normal" life. What ensues is a trenchant and often humorous exploration of the fictions we create and how we come to believe them.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Layout
• Author: Jeff Robbins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• EAN: 9781462007578
• ISBN: 9781462007578
• ID: 08633339
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Weight: 617 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. July 2011

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