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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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On a nontypical day in 1946 North Carolina, local schoolteacher Joe Robert Kirkman is dealing with a series of incidents: an unfortunate encounter with a treed bobcat, a courageous rescue of a drowning child, discovering the humanity of the black schoolhouse janitor, trying to get a goat off the roof, and several unsettling metaphysical discussions. Most troubling is the late afternoon meeting with the local school board -- called over Joe Robert's...
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'There remains the greatest of all novelists-for what else can we call the author of War And Peace? [Tolstoy's] senses, his intellect, are acute, powerful, and well nourished...Nothing seems to escape him. Nothing glances off him unrecorded...Every twig, every feather sticks to his magnet. He notices the blue or red of a child's frock; the way a horse shifts its tail; the sound of a cough; the action of a man trying to put his hands into pockets that...
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