- Mystery, Male friendship, Ex-police officers, Bildungsromans
It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing, Wheeler Pub., Mysterious Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780892967292
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