By John Gardner
One man's look for own grace in a city laid low with misfortune Henry Soames runs a diner in an eccentric rural neighborhood within the Catskills. he's frightened and obese, and at age forty-two, suffers from bad well-being. whilst Callie Wells, Soames's seventeen-year-old worker, is impregnated by means of an area boy on his solution to collage, it turns into obvious that either are short of a bit aid. After an unsuccessful try and locate Callie a husband, Henry accepts the function. yet quickly after the inconceivable marriage commences, unusual occasions happen within the small city, and Henry's pursuit of private salvation starts off. Written via the writer of October mild and the daylight Dialogues, Nickel Mountain is a perfectly conceived narrative approximately one man's look for achievement in a lonely international. This book incorporates a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, together with unique letters, infrequent photographs, and never-before-seen files from the Gardner family members and the collage of Rochester data.
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