Publication

2003 - HarperCollins, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

85,250 words, Guess

Page Count

341 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2003056564
  • Better World Books9780060523886
  • Open LibraryOL3689208M

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR6063.C32 C35 2003
  • LCCPR6063.C32C35 2003

Description

"This is a book about a fat man with glasses. Aviator shades to be precise, which he only wears when he is about to go on a rampage." "Joey Tallon lives in the small, close-knit town of Scotsfield, where dread and death are the neighbours of hilarity and abandon. We meet Boyle Henry, Hoss and other sharp men of the place, and watch as they move from brutality and corruption to wealth and respectability. And Joey transforms himself too. From bovine pie-eating barman to a man of total organisation, a seeker after truth, a holy fool determined to assuage the community's guilt for its violent deaths. And it's love that has transformed him, his love for Jacy, a beautiful blonde-haired girl, so Californian in appearance she might be Joni Mitchell's twin." "Joey wants everyone to know the truth, but who'll believe the testimony of a kidnapper, a fantasist, a jailbird, when he says he knows what happened to Campbell Morris in the reservoir, and Detective Tuite in the animal pit? Who wants to hear his stories when the men of violence are now pillars of society? But try silencing Joey Tallon. Scotsfield's only true living genius is gonna tell it like it was!"--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The End . . . . . . is the beginning - that's what the ancients say.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction

Links

Other Editions

  • Call me the breezeHarperCollins2003-01-01

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