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Population 485

Michael Perry

2005234 pagesabout 4–5 hours
2005
first published
  • 2002HarperCollins · 234 pages · ENGISBN 9780060198527
  • 2007HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061467516
  • 2005HarperAudio · ENGISBN 9780060762711
  • 2007Harper Perennial · 234 pages · ENGISBN 9780061363504
  • 2003Harper Perennial · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780060958077

Welcome to New Auburn, Wisconsin, where the local vigilante is a farmer's wife armed with a pistol and a Bible, the most senior member of the volunteer fire department is a cross-eyed butcher with one kidney and two ex-wives (both of whom work at the only gas station in town), and the back roads are haunted by the ghosts of children and farmers. Against a backdrop of fires and tangled wrecks, bar fights and smelt feeds, Population: 485 is a comic and sometimes heartbreaking true tale leavened with quieter meditations on an overlooked America.

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