Spooner Spooner

Spooner

    • 3.9 • 21 Ratings
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2009
September 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
480
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
1.3
MB

Customer Reviews

lizutu ,

Comic tragedy

As odd as Spooner is he is all of us, or at least one feels a sympathetic kinship with the poor misfit.

The story of Spooner is funny, painful and pathetic but not exactly depressing. The prose is well crafted and well honed to best convey the character
Of Spooner in such a way so as to make us love him and yet feel sorry for him.

It reminds me of John Irving's writing in that the author relates idiotic tragedies that befall stange people in outlandish situations without burying us in pathos but still conveying the heart of life.

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