false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178287403m/780582.jpg 780582 2 It's summer 2001 in Springfield, IL, and Harvey Sloan's sole interest in life continues to be the Weather Channel. His great-niece, Josie, possessed by a hopeless teenage love, confides in Abe Lincoln. Her divorced mother, Elaine, starts to believe that a good or bad day is indicated by her car's service engine light. Meanwhile, Rolando Gottschalk, armed with a gun and an unknown agenda, seems to be headed to Springfield from Los Angeles, leaving a wake of random destruction. Add Mitch, a gorgeous cop, and Rosa, a Mexican cleaning woman, to the mix and you have a novel with characters both memorable and believable. Thompson, a 2001 National Book Award finalist for Who Do You Love: Stories, moves with precision from the first paragraph to the last in chapters that read like short stories. She transforms the familiar themes of desire for happiness, fulfillment, and redemption by using weather as a powerful emblem. 766608 2001 Wide Blue Yonder: A Novel total:23|5:5|4:12|3:5|2:1| 23 90 54 7 780582 0743229584 9780743229586 21 7 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178287403m/780582.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780582.Wide_Blue_Yonder_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 01 08:47:06 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 07:06:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 780582 0743229584 9780743229586 21 7 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178287403m/780582.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780582.Wide_Blue_Yonder_A_Novel 3 0 false Fri May 08 12:52:14 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 12:55:12 -0700 2009 780582 0743229584 9780743229586 21 7 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178287403m/780582.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780582.Wide_Blue_Yonder_A_Novel 2 0 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 19:12:05 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 20:00:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 780582 0743229584 9780743229586 21 7 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178287403m/780582.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/780582.Wide_Blue_Yonder_A_Novel 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 28 13:27:15 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 02 08:58:04 -0700 2008
Barrelled through all 360 pages in two sittings, so that should tell you something.

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