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| "In this neighbordhood, you
drive down the street, strangers will wave at you. Where I live now...well, they won't use
all their fingers." Donald Cooper is a Hollywood comedy writer, but his one-room life
isn't very funny right now. The problem is shadows. His son wants one of his own. His
girlfriend is tired of living with one. Then there are the shadows that doctors have just
found on his lung. On the night of his forty-fifth birthday, Donald Cooper reluctantly
begins a journey back to Chicago's South Side to face the shadows of his past - shadows
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The Junk-Drawer Corner-Store Front-Porch Blues is a novel
that captures with 20-20 vision and perfect emotional pitch the vanished America of the
1950s. Even more, it brings home the full meaning of family, of love, of loss, and of
coming to terms with the wounds of the past. Filled with laughter and tears, this
uplifting work shows that courage can open up new beginnings, and that a man is never too
old to come of age.
| Donald Cooper has
not been back to his childhood home in over twenty years. But now he has no choice. His
mother, from her hospital bed, insists that he is the only one she can trust to find her
most prized possession, the "Brown Box," which is somewhere in the house.
As he wanders the streets of his childhood and walks through
the rooms of the only home he has ever known, Donald Cooper hears the voices, sees the faces,
and relives the dreams that gave birth to his soul. He recalls the joys of growing up in a
truly happy family at the same time he confronts the tragedy that suddenly, shockingly,
shattered it all. As he continues to search for the Brown Box, he begins to realize that,
perhaps, the box still holds a part of him; a part that he must have if he ever wants to
be whole again.
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A reader from NYC writes:
I loved the
other John R. Powers books and discovered this one, believe it or not, in an airport
gift shop. As with his other books, it was a joy to read and had an emotional depth so
rarely found in books that are also miraculously funny. Powers may well be the most
underrated writer to emerge in the last 30 years. His books are so entertaining, you
don't notice yourself being moved. Until later, that is. Like, ten seconds later.
Wonderful writing I recommend to anyone with a heart and a funny bone.
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Other Books By John R. Powers:
- The Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice Cream God
- Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
- The Last Catholic in America
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