Geyser Life: A Novel - Hardcover

Edward Hardy

3.14

7 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1882593162 ISBN 13: 9781882593163

Publisher: Bridgeworks, 1996

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"Surprisingly well-nuanced...often wickedly amusing."-The New YorkTimes

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Review:

Told from the points of view of three siblings, one of whom is dead, Geyser Life, the debut novel from Edward Hardy, is the novelistic equivalent of a Hollywood buddy movie where the protagonists bicker and argue while traveling toward the inevitable epiphany at the end of their arduous journey. In this case, however, the protagonists are a brother and sister named Nate and Sarah. After the death of their mean-spirited and controlling older brother, they set off in search of the father who walked out on them after their mother died. "We'll find him and sort things out," explains Sarah. "What's a little more family dysfunction going to do to us anyway?"

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Nate Scales, a young journalist, and his sister Sarah go on an odyssey in search of the father who abandoned them years earlier. As they head west across the country from Boston and uncover cluse to the father's whereabouts, with the road leading them ultimately to the geyser fields and wildfires of western Wyoming, the story, which is set in 1988, becomes both a spiritual journey, exploring the boundaries of reconciliation, and a modern On the Road, with hilarious and poignant vignettes of American life.

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