An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life

â€œOne of the truest and most original new voices in American letters,â€ 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 Jeanâ€™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 sonâ€™s life, and he has chosen to go on living himself largely because his oldest friend couldnâ€™t otherwise survive. Theyâ€™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 thisâ€“only that her father is dead and her mother has bad taste in men. But once she encounters this grandfather sheâ€™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 recriminationâ€“to which sheâ€™s naturally the most vulnerableâ€“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.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2004-08-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400042012

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2004-08-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400042012

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