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Late CityRobert Olen Butler

Late City

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A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 election results arrive, and revisits his life in this moving story of love, fatherhood, and the American century from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler. A visionary and poignant novel centered around former newspaperman Sam Cunningham as he prepares to die, Late City covers much of the early twentieth century, unfurling as a conversation between the dying man and a surprising God. As the two review Sam's life, from his childhood in the American South and his time in the French trenches during World War I to his fledgling newspaper…

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4 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 2021
    Atlantic Monthly Press · 304 pages · 9780802158826
  • Other · English · 2022
    Oldcastle Books, Limited · 9780857304896
  • Other · English · 2022
    Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 9780802160324
  • Other · English · 2021
    Atlantic Monthly Press · 9780802158833