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Country dark  Cover Image Book Book

Country dark / Chris Offutt.

Summary:

A taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy,

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802127792
  • ISBN: 0802127797
  • Physical Description: 231 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Press hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2018.
Subject: Kentucky > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Mountain people > Fiction.
Veterans > Fiction.
Suspense.
Mountain people > Fiction.
Manners and customs.
Veterans > Fiction.
Veterans.
Kentucky > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre: Suspense fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 13 of 13 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 13 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library F OFF (Text) 33240004509082 Adult Fiction Available -
Boone Area Library OFF (Text) 33249022840098 Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults OFF Fiction (Text) 34001001330420 Adult Area Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Offutt (Text) 39427103304572 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Juniata County Library F OFF (Text) 39640100529583 JUNM Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults OFF Fiction (Text) 33454005551239 Reading Room Balcony Available -
Mifflin Community Library OFF (Text) 33249023257631 Fiction Available -
Pottsville Free Public Library Fic (Text) 30003008897454 Adult Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Offutt (Text) 33223008279985 Fiction Available -
Sinking Spring Library OFF (Text) 33249022973436 Fiction Available -


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