Author

Publication

1998 - Picador USA, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

85,000 words, Guess

Page Count

340 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads1268572
  • LibraryThing584057

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3557.A954 N49 1998

Description

Paul Thibodeaux is a handsome young man married to Colette, the most beautiful woman in the small Louisiana town where they grew up. For Paul, life is complete: a wife he loves, machines to repair, and a lively local dance hall. But Colette wants more, and when she sets off for California in search of something better, Paul follows her there and back, waiting to see if she'll change her mind about him and about their life together. In the meantime, the oil bust of the eighties has destroyed their hometown, and Paul and Colette must salvage not only their marriage but their livelihoods. How they do this, and come to realize the importance of home and marriage, makes for a novel that is at once an adventure, a love story, and a moving portrait of a place and a culture rarely explored in contemporary fiction.

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Other Editions

  • The next step in the dancePicador USA1998-01-01

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