Grahame Woods
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"Some sink, some swim. In the middle of life, in the middle of a goddamn tomato field. Who cares? Elden Harris cares. And when Eldon cares, Eldon figh
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ts. His fiftieth summer began peacefully enough, but then events began to cast long, dark shadows ahead of themselves. He had been a somebody once. A teenage hockey star with a big future. A hero with a medal- a born leader, a romantic living it up in the cities of wartorn Europe. But when the fighting stopped he had to face the real world. And it didn't look good. He was sinking. With his wife and his daughter he was floundering on the baked earth of the Southern Ontario farm where he worked as a migrant labourer. Then salvation seemed to appear from a clear sky, and he reached for it with both hands. But those long, dark shadows were falling over the lives of his family...By turns sensual, riotous, gripping and brutal, this first novel by an award-winning TV playwright and cinematographer makes an explosive beginning to a new phase of an already successful career."- Publisher
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