320 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey boards with gilt green lettering to spine and blind-stamped title to cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition, review copy. Carl Stein, a professional con man, moves in on Carl and Venus Blalock, an unsuspecting couple in a small Texas town. Over the course of the con, Stein's wife, May, befriends Venus. But not even May's accidental drowning when the two couples are on a summer picnic stops Stein from stealing thousands of dollars from the Blalocks and then disappearing.Venus and the two Carls narrate a fast-paced story as they flee to Mexico. On their frantic road trip, they encounter an intriguing range of people, from a man stuck in a Keno parlor to a reporter determined to steal a million-dollar jackpot. In this novel about downfall and redemption, each narrator eventually regains control of his or her own life through the intervention of chance. Condition: Review material laid in. Fine in like jacket.

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Bookseller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: L0952
Title: Rolling the Bones
Author: Kyle Jarrard (1955- )
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586420267
ISBN 13: 9781586420260
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Place of Publication: South Royalton, VT
Date Published: 2001
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;
Size: Octavo

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