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Author Giuffre, Katherine, 1962- author.

Title The drunken spelunker's guide to Plato : a novel / Kathy Giuffre.

Publication Info. Winston-Salem, North Carolina : John F. Blair, Publisher, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC GIUFFRE, K    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-GIUFFRE    Check Shelf
Description 223 pages ; 23 cm
Note Statement of responsibility from spine. The Drunken Spelunker s Guide to Plato is based on Plato s Allegory of the Cave from The Republic. In this novel, the Cave is a dank basement bar in the small Southern town of Waterville, overflowing with cheap beer, good blues, and local oddballs. There s Vera, the tough but tender owner; Pancho, the philosophical piano tuner; Billy Joe, the former rising star back home after a stop in Memphis; and Commie Tom, the exceedingly generous proprietor of the Hammer and Sickle Bookstore. The newest bartender is whip-smart tomboy Josie, who hopped a bus from the Appalachian backwoods on a quest to discover who she is and where she belongs. What she finds is the Cave and the love of a charming regular named Danny. Armed with lessons from mythology and Plato s philosophy, Josie navigates the ups and downs of first love and begins to understand that something much greater is waiting for her just outside the Cave.
Subject Single women -- Fiction.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Fiction.
Subculture -- Fiction.
Bars (Drinking establishments) (OCoLC)fst00827779
Single women. (OCoLC)fst01119452
Subculture. (OCoLC)fst01136426
Genre/Form Allegories.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
ISBN 9780895876515 hardcover alkaline paper
0895876515 hardcover alkaline paper
9780895876522 electronic book
0895876523 electronic book
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