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The thing about small towns is that while people continually extol their virtues of community, the one thing that most young people want to do is to escape from them. And so it is with this wonderful novel about four friends set in a small Wisconsin farming community. Hank never has left; staying in town and working his family's dairy farm, but the others have all headed out into the wider world -Ronny on the rodeo circuit, Kip to the commodity markets of Chicago and Lee into the wide world of f
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Shotgun Lovesongs, by Nickolas Butler
(pub date: Mar 11, 2014)
Nickolas Butler writes beautifully in his debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, about the trajectory of childhood friendship. Stunning imagery of rural Wisconsin paints the mythical town of Little Wing, where four boys grow up as best friends; three leave and return as adults, to find the dynamics of their friendships changing and maturing. Shotgun Lovesongs is as much an ode to Wisconsin’s natural beauty, as it is an examination of our olde ...more
(pub date: Mar 11, 2014)
Nickolas Butler writes beautifully in his debut novel, Shotgun Lovesongs, about the trajectory of childhood friendship. Stunning imagery of rural Wisconsin paints the mythical town of Little Wing, where four boys grow up as best friends; three leave and return as adults, to find the dynamics of their friendships changing and maturing. Shotgun Lovesongs is as much an ode to Wisconsin’s natural beauty, as it is an examination of our olde ...more
Mar 13, 2014
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