A Song for the Asking: A Kane Novel Paperback - 2012
by Steve Gannon
First-time novelist Steven Gannon explodes on the scene with the kind of absorbing novel that fans of deftly woven prose love to read--and talk about months after they have turned the last page. This book tells of one summer in the life of an impassioned and conflicted family, where a tough, loving, and unwittingly cruel father takes on his four children. In the course of three short months, everything changes forever, and no member escapes unscathed.
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Dan Kane is the self-proclaimed king of his castle, his beachfront California home, and the iron-fisted loving ruler of his subjects-his wife, Catheryn, and his four children, Tommy, Travis, Allison and Nate. Hardened by his years in law enforcement, he is determined to toughen up his children to prepare them to face a violent world. The story unfolds over the course of a single summer when each member of the family pays a physical or psychic price for Dan's unwitting cruelty. Catheryn, who loves her rough-hewn husband, must defend her children against him. Tommy, the oldest, who struggles to live within his father's idealized vision of him as "the chosen one," favored for his physical strength and football prowess, meets tragedy for defying Dan's authority. Allison, the only girl and a budding writer, abandons hope of ever gaining her father's approval and so is deprived of his protection. Nate, the baby, only nine years old, is forced to keep a terrible secret for fear of his father's wrath. And Travis, the second son who is bullied and scorned by his father for his interest in music and other "weak" traits, must learn, the hard way, to stand up to the father he loves and hates.
"A Song for the Asking is a deeply poignant and compelling first novel by a writer accomplished enough to bear comparison with the young Pat Conroy.
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- Title A Song for the Asking: A Kane Novel
- Author Steve Gannon
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 386
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Steve Gannon
- Date 2012-01-21
- ISBN 9780984988105 / 0984988106
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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