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Presidio : a novel

Title
Presidio : a novel / Randy Kennedy.
Author
Kennedy, Randy, 1967-
Publication
  • New York : Touchstone, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
303 pages : map; 22 cm
Summary
  • Set in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being on the run. Troy Falconer returns home after years of working as a solitary car thief to help his younger brother, Harlan, search for his wife, who has run away with the little money he had. When they steal a station wagon for the journey, the brothers accidentally kidnap Martha Zacharias, a Mennonite girl asleep in the back of the car. Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home, so together these unlikely road companions attempt to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha's vengeful father. The story is told partly through Troy's journal, in which he chronicles his encounters with con artists, down-and-outers, and roadside philosophers, people looking for fast money, human connection, or a home long since vanished. The journal details a breakdown that has left Troy unable to function in conventional society; he is reduced to haunting motels, stealing from men roughly his size, living with their possessions in order to have none of his own and all but disappearing into their identities. With a page-turning plot about a kidnapped child, gorgeously written scenes that probe the soul of the American West, and an austere landscape as real as any character, Presidio packs a powerful punch of anomie, dark humor, pathos, and suspense.
  • 1970s, in the Texas panhandle. Troy Falconer returns home after years of working as a solitary car thief to help his younger brother, Harlan, search for his wife, who has run away with the little money he had. When they steal a station wagon for the journey, the brothers accidentally kidnap Martha Zacharias, a Mennonite girl asleep in the back of the car. Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home. The trio attempts to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha's vengeful father. -- adapted from jacket.
Subject
  • Brothers > Fiction
  • Kidnapping > Fiction
  • Runaway wives > Fiction
  • Automobile thieves > Fiction
  • FICTION > Action & Adventure
  • FICTION > Literary
  • Brothers
  • FICTION > Thrillers
  • Kidnapping
  • Texas Panhandle (Tex.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Road fiction.
Call Number
JFD 18-5245
ISBN
  • 9781501153860
  • 1501153862
  • 9781501153877
  • 1501153870
  • 9781432860769
  • 1432860763
LCCN
  • 2017032629
  • 40028446155
OCLC
993623882
Author
Kennedy, Randy, 1967- author.
Title
Presidio : a novel / Randy Kennedy.
Publisher
New York : Touchstone, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Other Form:
Online version: Kennedy, Randy, 1967- Presidio. First Touchstone hardcover edition. New York : Touchstone, 2018 9781501153884 (DLC) 2017033152
Other Standard Identifier
40028446155
Research Call Number
JFD 18-5245
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