The Standard Grand
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"When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard--and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation--is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. With three violent acts at its center--a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past--and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar--along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters--soldiers, civilians--struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused..."--
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9781250108944
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Grouped Work ID | cfff5b37-3499-0cd0-c508-e90cdb955a8d |
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Grouping Title | standard grand |
Grouping Author | jay baron nicorvo |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2021-02-26 02:27:51AM |
Last Indexed | 2021-02-26 02:54:12AM |
Novelist Primary ISBN | none |
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display_description | "When an Army trucker goes AWOL before her third deployment, she ends up sleeping in Central Park. There, she meets a Vietnam vet and widower who inherited a tumbledown Borscht Belt resort. Converted into a halfway house for homeless veterans, the Standard--and its two thousand acres over the Marcellus Shale Formation--is coveted by a Houston-based multinational company. Toward what end, only a corporate executive knows. With three violent acts at its center--a mauling, a shooting, a mysterious death decades in the past--and set largely in the Catskills, The Standard Grand spans an epic year in the lives of its diverse cast: a female veteran protagonist, a Mesoamerican lesbian landman, a mercenary security contractor keeping secrets and seeking answers, a conspiratorial gang of combat vets fighting to get peaceably by, and a cougar--along with appearances by Sammy Davis, Jr. and Senator Al Franken. All of the characters--soldiers, civilians--struggle to discover that what matters most is not that they've caused no harm, but how they make amends for the harm they've caused..."-- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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owning_library_catalog | Sacramento Public Library | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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publishDate | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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subject_facet | Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction Veterans -- Fiction Women soldiers -- Fiction Women veterans -- Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_display | The Standard Grand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_full | The Standard Grand / Jay Baron Nicorvo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
title_short | The Standard Grand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
topic_facet | Veterans Women soldiers Women veterans |