Return to Oakpine

Return to Oakpine - Paperback

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Return to Oakpine - Paperback

Return to Oakpine - Paperback

by Ron Carlson
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by Ron Carlson (Author)

" [A] moving novel about friendship, forgiveness, and mortality." --Nancy Pearl, NPR's Morning Edition

Ron Carlson has always been a critics' favorite, but Return to Oakpine shows the acclaimed writer at his finest. In this tender and nostalgic portrait of western American life, Carlson tells the story of four middle-aged friends who once played in a band while growing up together in small-town Wyoming. One of them, Jimmy Brand, left for New York City and became an admired novelist. Thirty years later in 1999, he's returned to die. Craig Ralston and Frank Gunderson never left Oakpine; Mason Kirby, a Denver lawyer, is back on family business. Jimmy's arrival sends the other men's dreams and expectations, realized and deferred, whirling to the surface. And now that they are reunited, getting the band back together might be the most essential thing they ever do.

Author Biography

Ron Carlson is the author of five story collections and four novels, most recently The Signal. His fiction has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Playboy, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He is the director of the writing program at the University of California at Irvine.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.6 x 5 IN
Publication Date: October 28, 2014
ISBN9780143125594
Author Ron Carlson
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Ron Carlson is the author of several short story collections and books of fiction and poetry. Return to Oakpine is his most recent novel. His works have appeared in Harper's, the New Yorker, and the Atlantic Monthly, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, and other journals and anthologies; they have been performed on NPR's "This American Life" and "Selected Shorts."

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