Atticus_(novel)
1998 Nominated

Atticus

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott’s body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. Illuminating those often obscure chambers of the human heart, Atticus is the story of a father’s steadfast and almost unfathomable love for his son, a mystery that Ron Hansen’s fiction explores with a passion and intensity no reader will be able to resist.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Ron
Hansen

Ron Hansen is the author of ten novels—including The Kid, Mariette in EcstasyDesperadoes, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion—and two short story collections, among them She Loves Me Not. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.
Ron Hansen is the author of ten novels—including The Kid, Mariette in EcstasyDesperadoes, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion—and two short story collections, among them She Loves Me Not. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
USA
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins USA

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