Two strangers meet on a windswept car lot in West Texas. Marcus is fleeing the disastrous fallout of chasing a lifelong dream; Maria is returning to the hometown she fled years ago, to make amends. They begin to argue over the car that they both desperately want--a low-slung sky-blue twenty-year-old
All I Have in This World
β Scribed by Michael Parker
- Book ID
- 115307071
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 205 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781616203924
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β¦ Synopsis
" A very funny, very moving novel about being lost and then found . . . I love this book."
--Antonya Nelson, author of Bound
Two strangers meet over the hood of a used car in Texas: Marcus, who is fleeing both his financial and personal failures, and Maria, who after years of dodging her mistakes has returned to her hometown to make amends. One looking forward, the other looking back, they face off over the car they both want. And after knowing each other for less than an hour, they decide to buy it together. All I Have in This World is a different kind of love story about the power of friendship.
"A Springsteenian ode to the promise and heartbreak of the highway." --The New York Times
"Parker's skillfully rendered story rolls like a restless, unpredictable west Texas river--calm depths here, turbulent shallows there--as Marcus and Maria communicate and lurch toward an...
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