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Grab bag

Derek McCormack

2004200 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2004
first published
  • 2013Akashic Books · ENGISBN 9781617752537
  • 2004Akashic Books · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9781888451597

"Dark Rides, the first book in Grab Bag, tells the story of Derek, a gay teenager looking for love in carnivals, honky tonks, and hospitals. It's the 1950s. Derek finds solace only in the music of Hank Williams." "Wish Book, the second book in Grab Bag, takes place in a different time: the Great Depression. A small city swarms with con men. Hucksters peddle poisonous patent medicines. Spiritualists bilk the bereaved. Characters converge on a downtown department store, where they clash and connect like cogs in a Rube Goldberg contraption."--BOOK JACKET.

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead
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