393p., personal inscription signed and dated 2011 by the author, near-fine first US edition stated trade paperback original in Frenchfold pictorial wraps, inscribed & signed card laid-in. Inscribee is Carol Orlock, author, poet and wife of the late novelist Jack Cady to whom the author pays homage for his success. Crime novel set on a Michigan train.

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Title

Wire to Wire: a novel [inscribed & signed]

Publisher

TinHouse Books, Portland, OR

Publication Date

2011

Language

English

ISBN 10

1935639056

ISBN 13

9781935639053

Binding

Paperback

Edition

1st Edition

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

With its cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, Scott Sparling's debut--an homage to the American crime novel--chronicles the lives of damaged people doing their meager best and often finding the worst.

Wire to Wire assembles a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, in a stunning homage to one of our most popular enduring genres―the American crime novel. While riding a freight car through Detroit, Michael Slater suffers a near-fatal accident―a power line to the head. After a questionable recovery and a broken relationship, he abandons his new home in the Arizona desert, though not before leaving a man for dead. Slater returns to Michigan in a busted-up Ford to reunite with an old train-hopping pal, but quickly discovers that the Pleasant Peninsula of his youth is none too pleasant. As Slater’s past catches up with his present―a love triangle, a local drug dealer, the damaged residents of a destitute Northern Michigan town―rock bottom keeps slipping farther away. Three years later, Slater sits in a dark video-editing suite, popping speed like penny candy, attempting to reconcile himself with the unfilmed memories that haunt his screens and his conscience.

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Scott Sparling grew up near railroad tracks in Michigan. He now lives outside Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son. Wire to Wire is his first novel.

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