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<p><p>gordie Hatch Is Twenty-two, Charmingly Naive, And Certain That His First Job As A Writer For The St Louis Independent's Obituary Page Will Be A Stepping Stone To A Crackerjack Career In Journalism. The Year Is 1989, And Gordie Watches Helplessly While Dramatic Events -- The Very Events That Could Be His Lucky Break -- Unfold In The World Around Him. But Nothing Can Prepare Him For The Call He Gets From Alicia Whiting, A Young Widow With An Accent He Can't Quite Place. When Gordie Agrees To Meet Alicia, Against His Better Judgment, His Journalistic Curiosity Quickly Turns Into An Obsessive Search For The Outrageous Truth Behind The Whiting Family. Shot Through With Affectionate Humor And Surprising Twists And Turns, The Obituary Writer Introduces An Author Of Enormous Talent And Heart. Porter Shreve Brings A Deft Touch To The Moments That Mark A Young Person's Entrance Into The World, And A Sharp Eye To The Ways In Which The Lead Story Can Be Wonderfully, Seductively Misleading.<p></p><h3>barnes & Noble Guide To New Fiction</h3><p>this Bizarre, Wonderfully Written First Novel Introduces Readers To Gordie Hatch -- Twenty-two, Charmingly Naïve, And Certain That His First Job As

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Author

Shreve, Porter

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780395981320

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction

Rating

2.81 / 5 (256 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14