All I Have in This World

A Novel

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Michael Parker

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Two strangers meet on a windswept car lot in West Texas. Marcus is fleeing the disastrous fallout of chasing a lifelong dream; Maria is returning to the hometown she fled years ago, to make amends. They begin to argue over the car that they both desperately want—a lowslung sky-blue twenty-year-old Buick Electra. The car, too, has seen its share of mistakes and failures. Every dent and seam has witnessed pivotal moments in the lives of others, from the boy who assembled it at the Cleveland factory to all the owners who were to follow: a God-fearing man who sells it when he sees a sexy girl sprawled across it; a doctor who can’t dissociate it from his son’s fate; and a rancher’s wife who’d much rather live without it for all the history it carries. Marcus and Maria, after knowing each other for less than an hour, decide to buy the old car together. And as this surprising novel follows the rocky paths of the Electra and its owners—both past and present—these two lost souls form an unexpected alliance. All I Have in This World is a tender novel about our desire to reconcile past mistakes, and the ways we must learn to forgive others, and perhaps even ourselves, if we are ever to move on.

Author Biography:

Michael Parker is the author of seven works of fiction, most recently the critically acclaimed novel The Watery Part of the World. His work has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Oxford American, and others. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an O. Henry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches in the MFA writing program at UNC-Greensboro and lives in North Carolina and Texas. His website is www.michaelfparker.com.

Release date Australia

November 11th, 2014

Author

Michael Parker

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

336

Dimensions

140x210x20

ISBN-13

9781616204488

Product ID

21986801

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