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The Train of Small Mercies

Rowell, David. Book - 2011 Fiction 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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This debut novel follows multiple characters' intrepid search for hope amid the debris of an American tragedy, their lives irrevocably changed as Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train makes its solemn journey from New York to Washington.

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Nostalgic... submitted by sbaccouc on January 11, 2012, 7:49am This book takes you back....to a seemingly simpler time. Very well written, and can be read in one sitting!

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PUBLISHED
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399157288
039915728X

SUBJECTS
Kennedy, Robert F., -- 1925-1968 -- Death and burial -- Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States -- Fiction.
Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D. -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.