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Laura Paperback - 2001

by Larry Watson

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The prize-winning and bestselling author of "Montana 1948" now renders a novel of faith, obsession, and enduring love about a young boy's fascination with his father's poet mistress.

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In a captivating departure, Larry Watson, "a writer whose work is worthy of prizes" (Los Angeles Times Book Review), unveils a portrait of faith, obsession, and enduring love -- and a work of greater tenderness than anything he has yet written. Love captures Paul Finley, in, of all places, his own bedroom -- literally waking him from his dreams. The night he discovers Laura Pettit standing at his windowsill, Paul is eleven years old, a boy naturally inclined toward seriousness, precociously adept at the art of watching the world without being watched. Laura is twenty-two, a fiercely passionate and independent poet already experiencing the first flickers of fame, a beautiful woman on the brink of seducing Paul's father. No matter; Paul is smitten. When she leaves him to rejoin the grown-ups' party downstairs, Laura issues Paul a wholly impossible command, one that will haunt and consume both of them for the rest of their lives: "Forget me." Laying bare the inner life of one man during the course of nearly four decades, Larry Watson delivers a riveting treatise on the excruciating power of love -- and two of the most remarkable characters in recent American literature. Infused with breathtaking pathos and delicate grace, Laura is an extraordinary triumph of the novelist's art.

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In the summer of 1955 New England lay shimmering under one of the worst heat waves of the century.

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  • Title Laura
  • Author Larry Watson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-07-01
  • ISBN 9780671567767 / 0671567764
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 5.2 x 0.85 in (22.68 x 13.21 x 2.16 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Man-woman relationships
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Larry Watson was born in Rugby, North Dakota and raised in Bismarck. He is the recipient of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, a National Endowment of the Arts award, and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Regional Book Award. Watson teachers English at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Points.

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