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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seller Inventory # SONG1586420267
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. South Royalton. 2001. Steerforth Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1586420267. 336 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Carl Stein, a longtime con man, moves in on Venus and Carl Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. While the two couples are on a summer picnic Stein's wife, May, who had become close friends with Venus, drowns, suddenly sucked into a cistern at the bottom of a manmade lake. But May's death doesn't stop Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and promptly disappearing. Similarly, Venus and Blalock's lives are set spinning off in wild directions.' Venus and the two Carls tell a fast-paced story, relay style, as each runs away from the other and from the here and now-fleeing across parched Texas, to the homey, sleazy casinos of Louisana, and down into the extreme poverty, brilliant sunshine, and dazzling blue waters of Mexico's Pacific coast. The three roll through lives of road travel, motel living, casino miracles, alcoholism, and ever more thievery. inventory #30969. Seller Inventory # z30969
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Seller Inventory # 054113
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 320 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey boards with gilt green lettering to spine and blind-stamped title to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition, review copy. Carl Stein, a professional con man, moves in on Carl and Venus Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. Over the course of the con, Stein's wife, May, befriends Venus. But not even May's accidental drowning when the two couples are on a summer picnic stops Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and then disappearing.Venus and the two Carls narrate a fast-paced story as they flee to Mexico. On their frantic road trip, they encounter an intriguing range of people, from a man stuck in a Keno parlor to a reporter determined to steal a million-dollar jackpot. In this novel about downfall and redemption, each narrator eventually regains control of his or her own life through the intervention of chance. Condition: Review material laid in. Fine in like jacket. Seller Inventory # L0952
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Bill Nelson (dust jacket illustration) (illustrator). First Edition. Author's second novel. Charcoal cloth w/blue foil spine lettering, 320 pages. A nice, unread copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 014087