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Whiskey Whiskey

by Bruce Holbert

Genre: Other9

Published: 1994

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Whiskey is bitter to swallow and burns pleasantly as it goes down, but has a lasting, powerful effect. And according to Jess Walter, "Bruce Holbert is a lyrical, soulful chronicler of our ever-changing West."Brothers Andre and Smoker were raised in a cauldron of their parents' failed marriage and appetite for destruction, and find themselves in the same straits as adults—navigating not only their own marriages, but also their parents' frequent collision with the law and one another. The family lives in Electric City, Washington, just a few miles south of the Colville Indian Reservation. Fiercely loyal and just plain fierce, they're bound by a series of darkly comedic and hauntingly violent events: domestic trouble; religious fanaticism; benders punctuated with pauses to dry out that never stick. When a religious zealot takes off with Smoker's daughter, there's no question that his brother—who continues doggedly to try and put his life in...

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