South of the Big Four by Kurtz, Don - 1995

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books Llc, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ; 371 pages; Textblock is tight and clean with no internal markings and no names; Oatmeal colored boards with a brown spine and the title in gold; Dust-jacket is unfaded with no tears and modest shelf and edge wear; We have placed it in a protective, removable mylar cover; . (The author's debut novel is set in contemporary farm country of north central Indiana, just south of the Big Four railroad tracks, telling the story of thirty-year-old Arthur Conason and his return to his family's abandoned farmhouse. A gracefully told, arresting look at an America in which the center no longer holds, where a new kind of forgiveness and understanding must be found. The daily lives of its Midwestern characters create a penetrating story.).