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Edson, New Hampshire, is a typical New England mill town, small and hardscrabble. Almost all the mills have closed down - crumbling reminders of a long-gone industrial era - and everybody left knows everybody else's business. It's a town where people come of age with dreams of leaving, fearing dead-end factory jobs or worse; some end up returning, once those dreams have been exhausted and there's nowhere else to go. Henry Corvine first came to Edson as a promising young musician, and didn't look back when he left. But after fifteen years of tough gigs, odd jobs, and bad luck, his career has…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 1997Random House Value Publishing · 9780517174302
- Other · English · 1996Knopf · 237 pages · 9780679446293
FictionMusiciansWorking classCity and town lifePsychological fictionMenPsychology