Polar
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"T. R. Pearson's Polar offers up, at heart, the bittersweet story of Deputy Ray Tatum's search for a missing child in the wilds of the Virginia Blue Ridge. Filtered through the eyes of a nameless, prying neighbor, this history of love and loss, of crime and punishment in a small, upland town is touched throughout by Pearson's trademark blend of extraordinary high humor and nagging melancholy.".
"We meet the local citizens - Ray's colleagues in the sheriff's office, his hot-head of a girlfriend, his ill-tempered, vaporish mongrel, and, most significantly, a grubby and miraculous prophet of the truly inconsequential named Clayton.
As Ray unravels the mystery of Clayton's condition and thereby closes in on his quarry, Pearson treats us to a lively perspective on rural American life (a marriage of diluted Old Testament values and cable-news-network misinformation) that is both wickedly corrosive and cracklingly funny."--BOOK JACKET.
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I went to an all-Texas MeetUp in Austin last weekend.
Texas BookCrossers came from all parts to eat lunch
together and swap book stories.
“What's your all-time must-read-before-you-die book?”
I asked.
Two different BookCrossers named books by T.R. Pearson.
Each was amazed to find there was another Pearson fan
in the immediate vicinity.
So, well, mercy, I had to read Polar, a book that's been
languishing in my TBR for months.
JennyO described this book perfectly at the MeetUp.
“It's the kind of book where the author rambles around
for forty pages and has actually written two pages of
plot.” Moreover, JennyO went on, “T.R. Pearson writes
like your grandma sitting on the backporch in the
summertime talks.”
Recommended.
