Spooner
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor’s office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court- martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner’s troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson’s inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This is the story about the relationship of tow men-Warren Spooner, who through bad luck and bad judgment had a difficult childhood and adolescence – and his stepfather Calmer Ottosson, who patiently loved and d stood by him his whole life. The tone is that of an amusing colloquial storyteller, describing incidents in the cycles of life that add up to a moving and satisfying novel.