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A Blue Ridge camping trip goes sideways for two young brothers and their minder in this sweet, brief novel of calamity and kindness circa 1968.
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A few months ago when I was casting around for something to write, my dear dog Stella developed a limp she couldn't quite shake. At first, the vet treated it like a sprain, but it never improved, only got worse. Then the swelling started, and the tumor came. Not a sprain at all. Osteosarcoma.
That's a dire disease in a dog, aggressive and usually fatal. The only option was to amputate the affected leg and hope the cancer hadn't spread. So that's what we did.
The limp started in November, and the surgery was in March -- the stretch of time when I was writing Sleepaway. I was determined to tell a story about decent people making the right choices and doing the right things because that's the only kind of story I could live with, and I took my muse where I found her, often blundering through the surf or upside down on the bed.
From now on when people new to my work ask me which of my books they should read, Sleepaway is the one I'll point them to. Partly because it's brief and wistful and turned out very much like I'd hoped, but chiefly because it's Stella's through and through. This may not be a book about a dog, but it was certainly inspired by one.
Many thanks to Steven Stratton for the interior design of this paperback edition.
About the Author
TR Pearson is the author of seventeen novels and four works of non-fiction, including A Short History of a Small Place, Cry Me A River, Jerusalem Gap, and Seaworthy. He has written three additional novels -- Ranchero, Beluga, and Nowhere Nice -- under the pseudonym Rick Gavin.
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- PublisherIndependently published
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1072551373
- ISBN 13 9781072551379
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages98
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