Roger Skipper

The Baptism of Billy Bean (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lane Hollar's seen little of the world beyond West VirginiaParris Island and Vietnambut that was enough. Now, thirty years later, he's estranged from his only son, Frank, and from society at large. Lane has his grandson, Toby; his daughterinlaw, Darlene; his bait shop; and his banjo, and he desires or needs nothing else. But then one day, he and Toby are out fishing when they witness a drugrelated murder. Suddenly, the boundaries of his world are no longer his to define. An investigation rules the drowning accidental but reveals the witnesses to the perpetrators, and without preamble, Lane is fighting for his life. Caught between ineptor corruptlawmen and a stonecold killer, Lane finds that his longneglected survival skills are, like Lane himself, obsolete and ludicrous in a world gone mad. In a rolling war through Appalachia's forests and towns, Lane must fight not only for his life, but for all the things that it has lacked: love, family, and peace.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781582439792
• Artikelnr.: 60857865

Autorenporträt

Roger Alan Skipper has been a potato picker, mason's tender, amusement park worker, roofer, building contractor, lumber and commodities buyer, and manager of a retail building supply outlet. At the age of 48, shortly after paying his youngest son's final college tuition bill, he walked away from his career in the lumber and building industry to pursue a college degree of his own. He graduated summa cum laude from a four-year school and received the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Fellowship, which propelled him through the graduate writing program at Vermont College. To keep his hands callused and his mind tidy, in addition to his writing, he's a luthier of professional-quality acoustic instruments (www.skipperstrings.com). He lives with his wife Connie near Oakland, Maryland. There he also plays bluegrass music and wanders around in the forest of Appalachia, where he has not yet lived his entire life. His novels are set in this landscape, in fictional Union County, West Virginia.