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The coffins of Little Hope / Timothy Schaffert.

Title
The coffins of Little Hope / Timothy Schaffert.
Author
Schaffert, Timothy
Publication
[Cave Creek, Ariz.] : Unbridled Books, c2011.

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Description
262 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Essie is the octogenarian obituary writer for her family's small town newspaper. When a young country girl is reported to be missing, perhaps whisked away by an itinerant aerial photographer, Essie stumbles onto the story of her life. Or, it all could be simply a hoax, or a delusion, the child and child-thief invented from the desperate imagination of a lonely, lovelorn woman. Either way, the story of the girl reaches far and wide, igniting controversy, attracting curiosity seekers and cult worshippers from all over the country to this dying rural town. And then it is revealed that the long awaited final book of an infamous series of Y.A. gothic novels is being secretly printed on the newspaper's presses. The Coffins of Little Hope tells a feisty, energetic story of characters caught in the intricately woven webs of myth, legend and deception even as Schaffert explores with his typical exquisite care and sharp eye the fragility of childhood, the strength of family, the powerful rumor mills of rural America, and the sometimes dramatic effects of pop culture on the way we shape our world.
Subject
  • Obituaries > Authorship > Fiction
  • City and town life > Nebraska > Fiction
  • Missing persons > Fiction
  • Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  • Nebraska > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Humorous fiction
  • Humorous fiction.
  • Fiction
Note
  • "A novel"--Jacket.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9781609530402 (hbk.)
  • 1609530403 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2010043201
OCLC
  • 676063338
  • SCSB-11848713
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library