Scott Blackwood
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Language
English
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"One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are working the counter, set fire to the shop, and disappear. SEE HOW SMALL tells the stories of the survivors--family, witnesses, and suspects--who must endure in the wake of atrocity. Justice remains elusive in their world, human connection tenuous. Hovering above the aftermath of their deaths...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young lifeguard in an Austin suburb vanishes one night while returning from a screening of The Third Man.
A doctor, ill with cancer, goes missing from his home and is later seen, bearded and ragged, wandering the aisles of a grocery store.
A car is stolen, the unseen consequences tragic. One child is given up to adoption, another is lost up a tree.
The absences are so keenly felt, in the drifting lucidity of the author's sentences, that every...
Author
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Founded in 1917, Paramount Records was but one of the home-grown record labels of the New York Recording Laboratories (NYRL), a subsidiary of a chair company in Wisconsin with operations near Lake Michigan. No outsized hopes were pinned to Paramount or its sister companies; its founders knew nothing of the music business, the records themselves were only to drive sales of expensive phonograph cabinets they had recently begun manufacturing. Lacking...