Carry My Bones - Hardcover

Yoder, J. Wes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596921757 ISBN 13: 9781596921757

Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub, 2006

Synopsis

A botched crime forces three men – a sculptor, his son, and the son’s septuagenarian friend – to flee their small town in this tragic and moving account of survival in the face of one’s own failures.

A man kills his wife’s lover . . . almost. The criminal is Gideon Banks, a sculptor of modest success who has finally realized that he is incapable of repairing his broken marriage. Now frantically on the run from the law, Gid is joined by Merit – his adopted, introverted son – and John Frederick White, an old turnip grower, the singer of a thousand songs, and Merit’s best friend.

For the length of a college football season the unlikely trio drifts along the highways, backroads, and deer trails of Alabama, befriended many times by other solitary Southerners, alone in their work, their addictions, and their restlessness. In Birmingham, they meet a young woman who is naively charmed by their tale and, bored with her upper-class upbringing, takes them in.

Sheltered in a house of grand portraits and heated floors, the three are afforded the time to face their separate struggles:

John Frederick a fever, Gideon his guilt, and Merit the girl who would ruin his ideas about isolation forever.

About this title

About the Author

J. Wes Yoder grew up in Franklin, Tennessee. After college, he worked at several newspapers in the South before moving to New York. Carry My Bones is his first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macadam Cage Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596921757
• ISBN 13: 9781596921757
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238