Ceremony in Lone Tree
By: by Wright Morris ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Keith Botsford.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Older men -- Fiction; Birthdays -- Fiction; Ghost towns -- Fiction; Family reunions -- Fiction; Nebraska -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Come to the window.
Description: "Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: The Scene
pagenum: 3; label: The Roundup
pagenum: 23; title: Boyd
pagenum: 23; title: McKee
pagenum: 47; title: Lois
pagenum: 57; title: Maxine
pagenum: 70; title: Etoile
pagenum: 83; title: Calvin
pagenum: 93; title: Bud
pagenum: 107; title: Lee Roy
pagenum: 118; title: Jennings
pagenum: 128; label: The Ceremony
pagenum: 139; title: Boyd
pagenum: 141; title: McKee
pagenum: 149; title: Maxine
pagenum: 167; title: The Leaves of the Table
pagenum: 174; title: Jennings
pagenum: 185; title: Boyd
pagenum: 193; title: McKee
pagenum: 201; title: Calvin
pagenum: 210; title: Maxine
pagenum: 219; title: Boyd
pagenum: 228; title: Lois
pagenum: 234; title: McKee
pagenum: 244; title: Boyd
pagenum: 253; title: Lois
pagenum: 264; title: Jennings
pagenum: 270; title: McKee
pagenum: 278; title: Maxine
pagenum: 287; title: McKee
pagenum: 293