Blue Ridge
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Blue Ridge
（Penguin fiction）（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 2001
- : pbk
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"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 2000"--T.p. verso
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: pbk ISBN 9780141002163
Description
Ray Tatum is the new deputy sheriff of Hogarth, Virginia, until the discovery of a nearly complete set of human bones on the Appalachian Trail. Meanwhile, Ray's cousin, Paul, is summoned to New York to identify another body--the corpse of his son, whom he barely knew. A New York Times Notable Book.
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ISBN 9780670892693
Description
Blue Ridge is the seventh in a series of deliriously idiosyncratic novels by T.R. Pearson. The narrative is two-pronged, focusing in part on the rather shabby and unsettled existence of Ray Tatum -- a deputy sheriff in the Virginia Appalachians -- whose story is interwoven with that of his cousin, Paul, a Roanoke actuary by trade and hopelessly brittle by disposition. The novel opens with Ray settling into a new job in a sleepy town only to be handed a case involving a discovery of human bones on the Appalachian Trail. Paul, on the other hand, is called abruptly from his job to New York to identify the body of his son, a young man he has only seen once in his life. These twin stories, each with a corpse at its core, unspool and evolve in tandem, one in the wilds of the Virginia Uplands and the other on the streets of Manhattan. They are married by tone and theme, and by Pearson's trademark humor. It is double-barrelled to the last word.
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