false 518322 3 2 male Baltimore 1963/07/08 1617852 6065020 1932870296 9781932870299 7 <![CDATA[Drift and Swerve: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231265564m/6065020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231265564s/6065020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6065020.Drift_and_Swerve_Stories 4.61 23 Drift and Swerve swirl around characters in motion, hungry for connection or disconnection, struggling with violence and sexual emptiness, bad decisions and unintended consequences. A family flees a dying grandmother, pursing and nearly killing a drunk driver. A man abandoned by his wife becomes involved in a violent sexual relationship as he struggles to become a parent to his daughter. An adolescent girl runs to Providence, steals drug money to escape an empty relationship and runs to Austin, still searching for love, though she knows she has as much chance as anyone -- none. These are stories of connection and fracture, struggle and survival, dignity and disgrace, stories of isolation and the sparks of intimacy that reanimate hope.]]> 518322 4.32 41 8 2009 1040320 0060099119 9780060099114 1 <![CDATA[Safe in Heaven Dead: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180443158m/1040320.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180443158s/1040320.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1040320.Safe_in_Heaven_Dead_A_Novel 4.13 15 Robert Elgin died on the street, knocked down and run over by a Second Avenue bus while pursuing a woman he thought he could not live without.

In a tale told from the end to the beginning, we meet Robert Elgin, who, after stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, takes the money and runs.

But back home in Michigan, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there; he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back, either. And he has to.

A spellbinding literary noir, Safe in Heaven Dead reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world that, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow still breeds hope.

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