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Randall is a 17-year-old loner who has entered the farm town of Goodnight, Nebraska. It is his last chance to escape events back home - a shooting, a car crash and a family in disarray. Despite his efforts to resist, he is absorbed into this small-town American community.
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"You'll want...to buy copies for all your reading friends--flawless."--San Francisco Chronicle
"What a remarkable debut!... A small town that is as vivid and alive as Sinclair Lewis's Zenith, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon."--The Denver Post
"Deft, touching, and humorous. In the tradition of Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and Anne Tyler."--The Christian Science Monitor
"McNeal is aware that many more of us will accept the sadness we know than venture out in search of a possibly painful unknown--and he renders such decisions in language whose very plainess feels musical."--The New York Times
"A vivid, tender and thoughtful portrait of a great plains farm town. These sad, secret stories bring out the best of McNeal's writing, and are his finest and most lasting gifts to the reader."--Los Angeles Times
"Completely compelling. A beautifully drawn portrait of a town that at once combines and cradles the people who grow up in it."--National Public Radio
"A strange, bumpy, and memorable trip through small town USA--a compelling journey into the heart of American life."--Redbook"
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"What a remarkable debut!... A small town that is as vivid and alive as Sinclair Lewis's Zenith, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon."--The Denver Post
"Deft, touching, and humorous. In the tradition of Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and Anne Tyler."--The Christian Science Monitor
"McNeal is aware that many more of us will accept the sadness we know than venture out in search of a possibly painful unknown--and he renders such decisions in language whose very plainess feels musical."--The New York Times
"A vivid, tender and thoughtful portrait of a great plains farm town. These sad, secret stories bring out the best of McNeal's writing, and are his finest and most lasting gifts to the reader."--Los Angeles Times
"Completely compelling. A beautifully drawn portrait of a town that at once combines and cradles the people who grow up in it."--National Public Radio
"A strange, bumpy, and memorable trip through small town USA--a compelling journey into the heart of American life."--Redbook"
It is July in Nebraska. At McKibben's Mobil Station, prudently situated at the intersection of Highway 20 and Main Street, a lone passenger steps down from the bus. His name is Randall Hunsacker and he has arrived in Goodnight, a small-town Midwestern farming community, to escape events back home - a shooting, a car crash, a family in freefall. He has also come to change his destiny.
Even as Randall resists absorption into the town, he unwittingly becomes a part of it. To someone whose life is born out of tragedy, Goodnight promises a redemption of sorts. But in a country where the second hardest currency is a clutch of impossible dreams, such an outcome is as elusive as a fairytale in a world of nightmares.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0385410174
- ISBN 13 9780385410175
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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