{"product_id":"the-bartenders-tale-paperback","title":"The Bartender's Tale - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIvan Doig\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA national bestseller, the story of \"a boy's last days of youth and a history his father can't leave behind\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an \"accident between the sheets\" whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. \u003ci\u003eThe Bartender's Tale \u003c\/i\u003ewonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Doig is the author of ten previous novels, most recently \u003ci\u003eWork Song\u003c\/i\u003e, and three works of nonfiction, including his classic first book, \u003ci\u003eThis House of Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42741236531263,"sku":"9781594631481","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/67c6e9629ac41b1e1252e01949847786.webp?v=1765160960","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-bartenders-tale-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}