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Seventy years old, ill, and bent by the ravages of time and loss of self-respect, Old Jerry wants to die. Charlie Simpkins, Old Jerry's grandson, is a petty crook with a taste for trouble, alcohol, and the wrong sort of women; his older brother, P.T., is sweetly naive and very troubled and... read more
First Sentence
IT'S HARD TO THINK HOW DIFFERENT THEIR LIVES would have been if it weren't for the mess they got themselves into, if it weren't for that war, if they hadn't all been so young and stupid and scared.
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- Lisa Reardon (Author)
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