Spooner

Description

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

Description

Losing his father shortly after birth, Warren Spooner endures a troubled childhood and even more troubled young adulthood that is marked by his dishonorably discharged stepfather, whose inexhaustible patience is tested by the difficult Warren. By the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.

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Genres

• Fiction

Other Editions

• SpoonerGrand Central Pub.2009-01-01
• SpoonerElectronic resourceGrand Central Publishing2009-01-01
• SpoonerGrand Central Publishing2009-09-01
• SpoonerHardcoverGrand Central Publishing2009-09-24
• SpoonerAtlantic2010-01-01
• SpoonerGrand Central Publishing2010-10-25