The bartender's tale : a novel
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2013., , ©2012.
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New York : Riverhead Books, 2013., , ©2012.
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414 pages ; 21 cm.
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English

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Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets" whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. The Bartender's Tale wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Doig, I. (2013). The bartender's tale: a novel (1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed.). Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Doig, Ivan. 2013. The Bartender's Tale: A Novel. Riverhead Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Doig, Ivan. The Bartender's Tale: A Novel Riverhead Books, 2013.

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Doig, Ivan. The Bartender's Tale: A Novel 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed., Riverhead Books, 2013.

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