The flicker of old dreams : a novel
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New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
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Published
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
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Book
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303 pages ; 24 cm
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English

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Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small Western town once supported by a powerful grain company. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father's mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject's life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away-a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The mill closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim's younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary-reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely-strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. -- from Amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Henderson, S. (2018). The flicker of old dreams: a novel (First edition.). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Henderson, Susan, 1967-. 2018. The Flicker of Old Dreams: A Novel. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Henderson, Susan, 1967-. The Flicker of Old Dreams: A Novel Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Henderson, Susan. The Flicker of Old Dreams: A Novel First edition., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.

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