Deer season / Erin Flanagan.
Material type:
TextSeries: Flyover fictionPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]Description: viii, 307 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781496226815
- 149622681X
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Main Library | Fiction | FLANAGAN ERIN | Available | 33111010830764 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Winner of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of, as rumors fly and townspeople see Hal's violent past in a new light.
A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, Deer Season explores troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.
"Over a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of"-- Provided by publisher.