✍ Butler, Robert Olen
📂 Fiction
📅 2016
🏛 Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Atlantic Monthly Press
🌐 English
⚖ 205 KB
✦ LIBER ✦
Perfume River
✍ Scribed by Robert Olen Butler
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Atlantic Monthly Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 172 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From one of America's most important writers, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert's own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy's father, a veteran of WWII, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again, when Jimmy refuses to appear at his...
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