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050 00 $aPS3557.R4949$bW56 1994
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100 1 $aGrimsley, Jim,$d1955-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94025802
245 10 $aWinter birds /$cJim Grimsley.
260 $aChapel Hill, N.C. :$bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,$c1994.
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520 $aOn a snowy Thanksgiving day in North Carolina along a stretch of rural highway, a dreamy eight-year-old named Danny Crell is caught in the middle of a violent quarrel between his parents.
520 8 $aDanny's father, Bobjay Crell, has been at the mercy of doctors, unforgiving landlords, and cruel farm bosses ever since he lost an arm in a farm accident. His subsequent fits of rage and drunken jealousy have taken their toll on his wife and five children. The two hemophiliac boys, Danny and his younger brother Grove, have been particularly vulnerable.
520 8 $aBobjay isn't the same man that young Ellen Crell married years ago, but still she will go to terrible lengths to keep him home and sober and, failing that, to just hold the family together. In the midst of the worst violence, Ellen becomes a stranger to the children, as frightening in her own way as Bobjay in his worst rages.
520 8 $aIn a ramshackle cottage the children name "The Circle House" for its circle of rooms where one door opens on to the next in a dizzy escape leading nowhere, Ellen and the children must face at last the tormented man who terrorizes them all. Jim Grimsley's brilliant first novel unfolds in a strikingly unconventional way - as Danny tells himself his own story - and brings to light a shattering story of heartbreak, violence, and the endurance of the spirit.
650 0 $aFamily violence$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aHemophiliacs$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aBoys$zUnited States$vFiction.
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