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050 00 $aPS3573.A4256348$bW35 2003
082 00 $a813/.54$221
100 1 $aWallace, Daniel,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95004187
245 14 $aThe Watermelon King /$cDaniel Wallace.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2003.
300 $a226 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"The Watermelon King brings readers to Ashland, Alabama - immortalized in Big Fish - a fictional town whose reputation is based on its long-ago abundance of watermelons.".
520 8 $a"Thomas Rider knows almost nothing about his parents, only that his mother died the day he was born in Ashland. He travels there and interviews the townspeople, learning of the town's bizarre past. Most important, he learns about the Watermelon Festival, which at one time occurred annually and would symbolically ensure the continued fertility of the crop that sustained the townspeople - and how his mother came to destroy the festival.
520 8 $aPiecing together his own identity as well as that of the town, Thomas finds himself immersed in a series of events that turns everything he knows upside down."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGrandfathers$xDeath$vFiction.
650 0 $aMaternal deprivation$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107544
650 0 $aWatermelon industry$vFiction.
650 0 $aYoung men$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114024
651 0 $aAlabama$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100491
655 7 $aBildungsromans.$2gsafd
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm022/2002075941.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3573.A4256348$iW35 2003