Heading out to wonderful
(2012)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/GOOLRICK,R

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/GOOLRICK,R Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

296 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781565129238 (alk. paper), 1565129237 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

In 1948, a mysterious and charismatic man arrives in a small Virginia town carrying two suitcases; one contains his worldly possessions, the other is full of money. He soon inserts himself into the town's daily life, taking a job in the local butcher shop and befriending the owner and his wife and their son. But the passion that develops between the man and the wife of the town's wealthiest citizen sets in motion a series of events that not only upset the quiet town but threaten to destroy both him and the woman