- Fiction, Drug traffic, Widowers, Ex-mental patients
Have you ever loved someone who's mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar.
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Grave, contemporary, bleak and unpretentious.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Will Christopher Baer
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 291
- Publisher
- Penguin, Penguin (Non-Classics), Penguin Putnam
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670881758
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“I MUST BE DEAD FOR THERE IS NOTHING BUT BLUE SNOW and the furious silence of a gunshot.”
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