Carl Stein, a professional con man, moves in on Carl and Venus Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. Over the course of the con, Stein's wife, May, befriends Venus. But not even May's accidental drowning when the two couples are on a summer picnic stops Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and then disappearing. Venus and the two Carls narrate a fast-paced story as they flee to Mexico. On their frantic road trip, they encounter an intriguing range of people, from a man stuck in a Keno ...
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Carl Stein, a professional con man, moves in on Carl and Venus Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. Over the course of the con, Stein's wife, May, befriends Venus. But not even May's accidental drowning when the two couples are on a summer picnic stops Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and then disappearing. Venus and the two Carls narrate a fast-paced story as they flee to Mexico. On their frantic road trip, they encounter an intriguing range of people, from a man stuck in a Keno parlor to a reporter determined to steal a million-dollar jackpot. In this novel about downfall and redemption, each narrator eventually regains control of his or her own life through the intervention of chance.
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Good. No Jacket as Issued. BE4-A first American edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in good+ to very good-condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there is a small (about 0.5") closed tear at the front top left corner plus there is a small (less than 0.25" by about 0.5") patch of lite surface discoloration from a label on the back cover plus some very, very light creasing on the back cover at the top left corner. A con man moves in on an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. His wife drowns in a swimming accident while the two couples are on a summer picnic. He still goes on and steals thousands form the couple and then disappears. The couple's lives in turn are set spinning off in wild directions by the two events. Each of the novel's three characters tells their story as they all run away form each other fleeing across Texas, to the casinos of Louisiana, and down to Mexico's Pacific coast. By the author of "Over There." 320p.
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South Royalton. 2001. Steerforth Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1586420267. 336 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Carl Stein, a longtime con man, moves in on Venus and Carl Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. While the two couples are on a summer picnic Stein's wife, May, who had become close friends with Venus, drowns, suddenly sucked into a cistern at the bottom of a manmade lake. But May's death doesn't stop Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and promptly disappearing. Similarly, Venus and Blalock's lives are set spinning off in wild directions. ' Venus and the two Carls tell a fast-paced story, relay style, as each runs away from the other and from the here and now-fleeing across parched Texas, to the homey, sleazy casinos of Louisana, and down into the extreme poverty, brilliant sunshine, and dazzling blue waters of Mexico's Pacific coast. The three roll through lives of road travel, motel living, casino miracles, alcoholism, and ever more thievery. inventory #30969.
