Nothing to Lose
Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives-Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, between rival versions of Jesus. He dislikes his job-taki...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
Published: |
College Station :
TCU Press,
2014.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Summary: | Roger Jackson is a grouch. He drinks too much with the wrong sorts of people. He dislikes where he lives-Beaumont, Texas, a small, humid southeast Texas town caught between a marsh and an impenetrable forest, between racial and social strife, between rival versions of Jesus. He dislikes his job-taking photos of cheating spouses. He dislikes his past. (He could have been a lawyer.) And now, he finds himself entangled in a crime. When the police find an aging ex-hippie dead from bullet wounds to the head and torso, they find Roger's photos and want his help. Surrounded by a cas. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780875655796 |