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The Old Man's Place
- Author
- John Sanford
- Narrator
- Shawn Compton
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 30 August 2022
- Run Time
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This hard-boiled, literary masterpiece includes a new introduction by Jack Mearns, author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography.
Previously published as The Hard Guys and filmed as the 1971 motion picture My Old Man's Place.
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- Author
- John Sanford
- Narrator
- Shawn Compton
- Duration
- 5 hours 20 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 August 2022
- ISBN
- 9798765023020
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Synopsis
A trio of vicious World War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone. They embark on happily wreaking drunken havoc at the old man's place and in the nearby town. But when a naïve, mail-order bride arrives, she ignites a tinderbox of resentment, lust, and betrayal among the men that explodes in brutal depravity, bloody violence, and shocking death.This hard-boiled, literary masterpiece includes a new introduction by Jack Mearns, author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography.Previously published as The Hard Guys and filmed as the 1971 motion picture My Old Man's Place.
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