6/23/2023 0 Comments Bowlaway book![]() ![]() Human truths and swoon-worthy turns-of-phrase abound. A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley. Stronger even than the book’s curious cast of characters and their stories rendered on these pages is the way the tale is told it might be true that no living author weaves a finer sentence than McCracken. 24.64 2 Used from 19.50 2 New from 24.64. ![]() The saga also contains profound tragedy, joy, and literal spontaneous combustion within this sweeping narrative that swings through decades and across New England. ![]() Like any family’s story, this tale of the Truitts and their friends and neighbors is rich with singular details and instances of the miraculous emerging from the mundane. But the story opens with the simple discovery of someone sleeping in an early 20th-century cemetery in Massachusetts-an adult orphan who soon transforms the town with her split skirts, peculiar preferences, and passion for candlepin bowling. Whole lives through multiple generations are described on these pages. ![]() Elizabeth McCracken’s last novel was released 18 years ago, and although there’ve been short stories and a soul-shaking memoir to fill the void, here comes Bowlaway to make up for lost time. ![]()
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