Name: the heaven of mercury,a novel
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Author: Watson, Brad
ISBN: 9780393324655

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Author

Brad Watson

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Pages

335

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN

0393324656

ISBN13

9780393324655

Synopsis "the heaven of mercury,a novel"

Brad Watson's first novel was eagerly awaited after his breathtaking, award-winning debut collection of short stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men. In The Heaven of Mercury, Watson fulfills that literary promise with a humorous and jaundiced eye. Finus Bates has loved Birdie Wells since the day he saw her do a naked cartwheel in the woods in 1916. Later he won her at poker, lost her, then nearly won her again after the mysterious poisoning of her womanizing husband. Does Vish, the old medicine woman down in the ravine, hold the key to Birdie's elusive character? Or does Parnell, the town undertaker, whose unspeakable desires bring lust for life and death together? Or does the secret lie with some other colorful old-timer in Mercury, Mississippi, not such a small town anymore? With graceful, patient, insightful and hilarious prose (USA Today), Brad Watson chronicles Finus's steadfast devotion and Mercury's evolution from a sleepy backwater to a small city.

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