Flying shoes : a novel
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Status
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Howorth
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Fiction Howorth
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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"Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family--and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Howorth, L. (2014). Flying shoes: a novel (First U.S. edition.). Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Howorth, Lisa. 2014. Flying Shoes: A Novel. Bloomsbury.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Howorth, Lisa. Flying Shoes: A Novel Bloomsbury, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Howorth, Lisa. Flying Shoes: A Novel First U.S. edition., Bloomsbury, 2014.
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