Heading out to wonderful : a novel
Goolrick, Robert, 1948-
Heading out to wonderful : a novel / by Robert Goolrick. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2012. - 292 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
English
9781565129238
City and town life---Fiction
Butchers---Fiction
Virginia----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PS3607.O5925 / H43 2012
FIC GOO
Heading out to wonderful : a novel / by Robert Goolrick. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2012. - 292 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
English
9781565129238
City and town life---Fiction
Butchers---Fiction
Virginia----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PS3607.O5925 / H43 2012
FIC GOO