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323 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
There has never been a hero quite like Romulus Ledbetter, a Juilliard-trained pianist who makes his home in a cave in New York's Inwood Park. There has never been a debut novelist quite like George Dawes Green with his singular gift for marrying malevolence with poetry, tragedy with uproariousness, and madness with lucidity. And there has never been a novel quite like The Caveman's Valentine, a rich, idiosyncratic achievement that is by turns suspenseful, deeply moving. |
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And hilarious. Romulus Ledbetter wasn't always homeless. He once was a devoted husband, father, and musician with a bright future. He now forages for food in the trash cans of the city's better neighborhoods and wages a strenuous one-man war against Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant, an evil - and imaginary - power broker who is responsible for society's ills, as well as the sinister Y- and Z-rays that are corrupting humankind. Then one wintry night, Rom finds a corpse at the. |
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Mouth of his cave that rouses his well-defined sense of ethics and lauches him on an obsessive quest for anwers. Forced to reconnect with society, Rom leaves his world and journeys through a spiraling web of clues and hunches, straight into a sinister den of money, temptation, and murder - otherwise known as the "civilized" world. Loaded with quirky humor, compelling mystery, and a touching, wildly unlikely hero, The Caveman's Valentine is a novel whose time has come, by. |
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A writer sure to leave his mark on contemporary literature. |
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Homeless persons -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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Homeless persons. (OCoLC)fst00959445
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New York (State) -- New York.
(OCoLC)fst01204333
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Black humor (Literature)
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Mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
0446517224 |
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9780446517225 |
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0446671517 (pbk.) |
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9780446671514 (pbk.) |
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