This magnificent desolation
Subtitle: a novel
By: Thomas O'Malley
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781608192793
Subjects: Loss (Psychology) in children; Mothers and sons; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Abandoned children; Fiction; Loneliness in children; Veterans; Imagination in children
Description: Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover.