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Driving on the Rim Lib/E
Contributor(s): McGuane, Thomas (Author), Burns, Traber (Read by)
ISBN: 0792774396     ISBN-13: 9780792774396
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
OUR PRICE:   $67.46  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: November 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 6.2" W x 7.1" (0.92 lbs)
 
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Publisher Description:
The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. Berl Pickett, MD, whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school. But there must be meaning to existence beyond professional accreditation, and though scantly equipped, Berl Pickett has been on a mission to find it, despite being charged with negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, a business that lays bare the true benefits of small-town living.

Contributor Bio(s): Burns, Traber: -

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

McGuane, Thomas: -

Thomas McGuane is the author of numerous novels, short fiction, and screenplays, as well as several collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors. He earned a BA in English from Michigan State University and an MFA from Yale, where he studied play writing and dramatic literature. He received a Wallace Stegner Fellowhsip to Stanford University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.