| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
207 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
Set in a bitterly benighted, mine-polluted corner of Virginia, Nitro Mountain follows a group of people bound together by alcohol, small-time crime and music. There's Leon, a hapless bass player who can embroil himself in trouble just by getting out of bed in the morning. And his would-be girlfriend, Jennifer, who's living with Arnett, the town's most dangerous thug-- and hoping Leon will help her poison him. And there's Arnett himself, a psychopath for the ages-- albeit so charming and deranged, so strikingly authentic, that he arrests the reader's attention at first sight and holds it fast. His mirror image, a singer-songwriter named Jones, has his own moral issues, though at least he's trying to be a good man. The bright if battered soul who pulls us through this story is Jennifer, a vulnerable yet strong woman struggling heroically to survive the endemic hopelessness and violence that have surrounded her since birth -- Dust jacket flap |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Virginia -- Fiction
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Country life -- Virginia -- Fiction
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| OCLC # |
915323417 |
| ISBN # |
9781101946367 |
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1101946369 |
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9781101912447 |
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1101912448 |
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