Hollow ground
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Stephen Marion.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Zinc mines and mining -- Fiction; Illegitimate children -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Tennessee -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Gary left Zinctown, Tennessee, fourteen years ago, he left behind a father he couldn't please, a long-dead brother whose memory was inescapable, and a girl who was carrying his child. He hadn't planned on coming back." "But he did.".

"Zinctown is where he discovers his fourteen-year-old son, Taft, for the very first time. And it's where Taft, no longer a child but not quite a man, finds himself contending with three men vying to be his role model: the father who abandoned him, his ex-convict uncle, and a grandfather whose eyes are focused on the past.

On hand to explain it all to him is Tanya, who ushers Taft through the doors of adulthood a little faster than he's ready to go, explaining the intricacies of girlhood ("on Fridays I wear blue underpants"), and coaxing him on a plan to do away with her mother."--BOOK JACKET.