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Approaching eighty, Rove MacNee sets out to write the story of his youth I will be forgiven, Im sure, if I dont remember things with stunning clarity. What memories clearly remain resonate within him like rolling thunder and shower down like rain in Sonny Brewers superb and richly rewarding new novel of fathers and sons, family and betrayal. Set in the small gulf town of Fairhope, Alabama, this lyrical coming-of-age tale begins in the winter of 1941. Named for his fathers drowned Labrador retriever, Rove is a strong-shouldered and self-reliant sixteen-year-old, an uneven match for his volatile father, Captain Dominus MacNee. Though he sometimes wishes the whiskey-soaked man would be lost at sea, Rove himself is in danger of sinking in the troubled waters of his home life. Navigating between memoir and memory, past and present, Rove reflects upon the people and pursuits that have influenced his life: his passion for fishing, where the toss of the net is more thrilling than the catch in the bucket; his much-loved grandmother, who gives him a copy of Huckleberry Finn, saying, Boys sometimes run away, you know; and Anna Pearl Anderson, the prettiest girl on the Eastern shore, who ignit

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Author

Brewer, Sonny

Publisher

New York: Ballantine Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780345476333

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14