- Fiction, Drug traffic, Social life and customs, Manners and customs
Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune, has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land.
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Contemporary, classical in form, intimate and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Rowohlt, HarperCollins Publishers, Picador
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780060187378
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“"Van Ness felt a gladness and wonder as he drove past the small isolated towns along U.S. 101 in Northern California, a certain interest, a yearning, because he sensed they were places a person could disappear into."”
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