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Description edit
An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar.
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“Dogs, they say, are man's best friend, but their pants have no pockets, their thirst no end.”
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“The old glass-tanked <gas> pumps were long gone . . . but the rusted bolts of their bases still dangled upward from the concrete like finger bones from a shallow grave.”
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“. . . , a home where a man could drink in boredom and repent in violence and be forgiven for the price of a beer.”
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“Change is the rule. You can't go home again even if you stay there, and now that everyplace is the same, there's no place to run. But that doesn't keep some of them from trying.”
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“There's no fool like a fool who thinks he's charming.”
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“Youth endures all things, . . . Everything but time.”
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“They <lawyers> seem to have the idea that justice is an elaborate game, that courtrooms are tiny stages, and clients simply an excuse for the legal act.”
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“Sometimes I can't tell if I'm crazy or the world's a cess pool.”
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“Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough.”
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“"I can tell you things about ugly that would make your ears curl up in self-defense, mister," she said.”
Stacy
First Sentence edit
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 4 in C. W. Sughrue. (standard series)
Followed by The Mexican Tree Duck.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Crumley (Author)
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Publication Date: 1978
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Page Count: 244
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Publication Date: 1978
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Page Count: 244
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- Dewey: 813.54
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