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Spooner

Pete Dexter

2009300 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Grand Central Publishing · ENGISBN 9780446558167
  • 2009Grand Central Pub. · 469 pages · ENGISBN 9780446540728
  • 2010Atlantic · 469 pages · ENGISBN 9781848873391
  • 2011Atlantic · ENGISBN 9781848873407
  • 2011Atlantic Books, Limited · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9780857893024
  • 2010Grand Central PublishingISBN 9780446540735
  • 2009Grand Central Publishing · 784 pagesISBN 9780446562447

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

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