Train
A Novel
New York : Doubleday, 2003.
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
Description: 280 pages ; 25 cm
Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious talent for the game, he keeps his head down and his mouth shut as he navigates his way between the careless hostility of his "totes" and the explosive brutality of the other caddies. Miller Packard, a sergeant with the San Diego police department, first appears on the boy's horizon as a distracted gambler, bored with ordinary risks. Train names him the "Mile-Away Man" as they walk off the first tee, and even months later, when they have become partners of a sort and are winning high-stakes matches against golf hustlers all over the country, the Mile-Away Man is a puzzle to Train, remote and intimate, impulsive and thoughtful, often all at the same time.
Subjects:
Caddies -- Fiction.
Police -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Beverly Hills (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
Caddies -- Fiction.
Police -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Fiction.
African American men -- Fiction.
Beverly Hills (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781400096329 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
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Ebook
Electronic resource.
Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Pub. Group, 2005. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 663 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 382 KB).
Electronic reproduction. New York : Knopf Pub. Group, 2005. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 663 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 382 KB).