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005 20140606034309.0
008 131104s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 2013039124
019 860395795
020 9781620403013|q(hardback)
020 1620403013|q(hardback)
035 (OCoLC)862148954|z(OCoLC)860395795
040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dBTCTA|dBDX
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049 CKEA
050 00 PS3608.O95729|bF59 2014
082 00 813/.6|223
084 FIC000000|2bisacsh
100 1 Howorth, Lisa.
245 10 Flying shoes :|ba novel /|cLisa Howorth.
250 First U.S. Edition.
263 1406
264 1 New York :|bBloomsbury USA,|c2014.
300 325 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
520 "Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter
couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually
molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to
whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with
secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit
authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty
years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant
Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must
confront her family--and, once again, the murder's
irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable
Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based
on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front
page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a
crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a
particular time and place in the South, where even
calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a
story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a
flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of
history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying
Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern
voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from
a wounded past"--|cProvided by publisher.
650 0 Women journalist|vFiction.
650 0 Cold cases (Criminal investigation)|vFiction.
650 0 Sexually abused boys|vFiction.
650 0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction.
650 7 FICTION / General.|2bisacsh
655 7 Suspense fiction.|vFiction.
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938 Baker and Taylor|bBTCP|nBK0013899228
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