The Resource The flicker of old dreams : a novel, Susan Henderson
The flicker of old dreams : a novel, Susan Henderson
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The item The flicker of old dreams : a novel, Susan Henderson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
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- Summary
- Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject's life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away--a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary--reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely--strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in America's heartland, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.--COVER
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062834072
- Label
- The flicker of old dreams : a novel
- Title
- The flicker of old dreams
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Susan Henderson
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject's life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away--a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary--reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely--strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in America's heartland, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.--COVER
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Henderson, Susan
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3608.E5274
- LC item number
- F55 2018
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Undertakers and undertaking
- City and town life
- Man-woman relationships
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- The flicker of old dreams : a novel, Susan Henderson
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- nc
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn985966661
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062834072
- Lccn
- 2017011992
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)985966661
- Label
- The flicker of old dreams : a novel, Susan Henderson
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn985966661
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 303 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062834072
- Lccn
- 2017011992
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)985966661
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