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The Clearing

Tim Gautreaux

Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of rescuing his former idol. But as the brothers try to understand each other and their wives contend with their own hopes and fears, it is Randolph who starts a feud with the Sicilians who control the whisky and girls, and the future grows fearsome for them all.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780340828908
  • Price : INR 899
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Tim Gautreaux

Born and raised in Louisiana Tim Gautreaux has taught fiction for many years and lives with his family in Hammond. His work has appeared in Harper's the Atlantic Monthly GQ Zoetrope Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. His first novel The Next Step in the Dance won the 1999 SEBA Book Award and he has also published two collections of short fiction. THE CLEARING his second was published in the US and UK in 2003.

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