At the Table of Want - Softcover

Kimport, Larry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936154021 ISBN 13: 9781936154029

Publisher: Larry Kimport, 2009

Synopsis

Much scarred orphan, Truman Kramer, having joined the Peace Corps, is assigned to a small Malaysian community, serving an assemblage of all-but-forgotten handicapped children. Truman, never having kissed a girl, becomes involved with an unloved, married woman; a shopkeeper's wife craving anything of her own. As his service wanes, mired in earnestness and deceit, his lover's husband discovers his wife's affair. Torn with remorse, young Truman acts, plumbing the depths of love, and our need to attach ourselves to other human beings.

About this title

About the Author

Larry Kimport grew up in north-central Pennsylvania. For the past 24 years, he has coordinated an alternative educational program for at-risk teens in suburban New Jersey. At the Table of Want is Kimport's third novel.

From the Back Cover

An American coming-of-age love story. Beautiful and cruel. Funny and sad.

Maybe she wanted to be his girlfriend. There's a thought. Of course not really his, but whatever was? Not the farm, not Mabel's home, not The Children's Home, not even old man Archer's place back deep in the Pines.

Everything assigned - even the scar marring the side of his young face. The only thing he never wanted.

Orphaned as a young boy, and scarred by the loss of his mother, and quite literally by two encounters with a neighborhood bully, Truman Kramer, reared by a loving aunt, settles into a Peace Corps' reassignment of sorts in a small Malaysian community, serving an assemblage of all-but-forgotten handicapped children.

Truman, who's never so much as kissed a girl, soon finds himself involved with an unloved, local married woman; a shopkeeper's wife craving anything of her own.

As Truman's two years of service wanes, mired in earnestness and deceit, his lover's husband discovers his wife's affair.

Torn with remorse, young Truman acts, not wishing to sin against humanity twice in one lifetime.

Edition details

• Publisher: Larry Kimport
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936154021
• ISBN 13: 9781936154029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344