A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar

✍ Scribed by Daniel Pyne

• Publisher: Counterpoint Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 230 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Colorado, Colorado.
• ISBN: 1619020378

✦ Synopsis

Lee, a high school shop teacher in Evergreen, Colorado, managed to survive his messy divorce only to hurtle into what some might call a full-on midlife crisis. Looking for a way to spend his weekends and the now painfully long summer vacation, Lee buys a gold mine off the internet--a real, honest-to-God mine, complete with tall tales of riches, a history of disappointment, and a couple of Pakistani-by-the-way-of-Jackson-Hole prospectors willing to kill for its contents. With the frequently unwanted help of a band of locals, Lee becomes a weekend warrior, attempting to work the mine and keep him.;Prologue; The Wilderness; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; The Specter of Want and Disaster; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sxiteen; Cold Harbor; Seventeen; Eighteen; Nineteen; Twenty; Twenty-One; Twenty-Two; Thenty-Three; Twenty-Four; Appomattox; Twenty-Five; Twenty-Six; Twenty-Seven; Strike the Tent; Twenty-Eight; Author's Note; Acknowledgments.

✦ Subjects

Colorado