A TRAIL OF HEART'S BLOOD WHEREVER WE GO

Olmstead, Robert

ISBN 10: 0436339927 / ISBN 13: 9780436339929

Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1990

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Pages have edge browning common to UK; A New Hampshire town is the microcosm of a world on the edge of damnation in this sprawling, offbeat saga. Eddie Ryan, Vietnam vet and frustrated poet, is a mortician who believes "death is the opposite of love, not life. " Cody, a footloose, renegade logger, bulldozes his way into Ryan's family life, along with one dead buddy snowpacked into the plow of his truck. Cody longs for reconciliation with his estranged wife, drinks too much, rails at human folly and acts as godfather to Eddie's children. The friendship of the two men, punctuated by deaths tragic or bizarre, unfolds in a series of adventures evoking the themes of guilt, redemption, fatherhood and the pained realization that sometimes there are no good choices. ; 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches; 401 pages Near Fine editions. Jacket has a pull to front cover, light wrinkling to spine ends.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A TRAIL OF HEART'S BLOOD WHEREVER WE GO
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436339927
• ISBN 13: 9780436339929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery & Suspense::N - O

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Synopsis

The author has already published a collection of stories, "River Dogs", and a novel, "Soft Water", and this novel is set in his native New Hampshire and describes the friendship between a young local undertaker and a freelance logger.

Review

"A runaway truck of a novel, crammed with bonsai trees, big machines, and babies who talk to God....At the, the reader wants the ride to go on indefinitely--or to start all over again."--The New Yorker "Exhilarating fiction."--The Washington Post Book World "Beautifully nuanced....Olmstead has the gift." --The New York Times Book Review