An Unfinished Life

"Fine, new, clean, crisp and unread first printing in fresh blue-green boards, black spine with silver titles, signed neatly by Spragg with his name only to the title page, and fine pictorial dust jacket. This poignant and heartbreaking novel has recently been released as a movie with Robert Redford."

From Publisher:

"One of the truest and most original new voices in American letters," as Kent Haruf has written, Mark Spragg now tells the story of a complex, prodigal homecoming.
Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realizes this kind of life has got to stop, especially for the sake of her daughter, Griff. But the only place they can run to is Ishawooa, Wyoming, where Jean's loved ones are dead and her father-in-law, the only person who could take them in, wishes that she was too. For a decade, Einar Gilkyson has blamed her for the accident that took his son's life, and he has chosen to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend couldn't otherwise survive. They've been bound together like brothers since the Korean War and now face old age on a faltering ranch, their intimacy even more acute after Mitch was horribly crippled while Einar helplessly watched.
Of course, ten-year-old Griff knows none of this-only that her father is dead and her mother has bad taste in men. But once she encounters this grandfather she'd never heard about, and the black cowboy confined to the bunkhouse, with irrepressible courage and great spunk she attempts to turn grievous loss, wrath, and recrimination-to which she's naturally the most vulnerable-toward reconciliation and love.
Immediately compelling and constantly surprising, rich in character, landscape, and compassion, "An Unfinished Life" shows a novelist of extraordinary talents in the fullness of his powers.

Product Info

ISBN: 1400042011

ISBN-13: 9781400042012

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf

Year: 2004

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Signed

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