Tree Surgery for Beginners : A Novel
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[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, [2016].
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1 online resource (275 pages)
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Bestselling British author Patrick Gale chronicles the misadventures of a misfit tree surgeon in this "modern-day myth of self-discovery" ( The Guardian ). It was in the ancient cathedral city of Barrowcester that eight-year-old Lawrence Frost began his love affair with the trees that had "sprung up on the site of an ancient plague grave and unconsecrated resting place for the city's outcasts." And it is there that the thirty-two-year-old forester and arborist returns one night, after sleeping out in his truck in his beloved Wumpett Woods, to find blood staining the kitchen sink and floor of his farmhouse-his wife and daughter gone. Lawrence is suspected of beating his wife, Bonnie, for cheating on him with an American architect. It appears Bonnie and their daughter, Lucy, have done the sensible thing and fled. But when a corpse turns up, burned beyond recognition, the police decide to comb Wumpett Woods in search of a second body. Soon Lawrence is branded a murderer and arrested. Then Bonnie and Lucy turn up alive, and Lawrence is cleared. But he has lost his family. He takes a five-hundred-passenger cruise on the SS Paulina , where a chanteuse of a certain age-and uncertain gender-captivates him. Lawrence begins a new journey, a spiritual and erotic odyssey that takes him back to the buried secrets of his past and then onward toward the future. From the English provinces to the Caribbean to America-and the giant redwoods of northern California-filled with Shakespearean twists and turns and happy coincidences, Tree Surgery for Beginners is a sprawling, Dickensian carnival of a book. With multiple viewpoints and cameo appearances that include a vacillating tiger, it sweeps readers along as Lawrence himself learns to move forward. By turns moving and tragic, this is a triumphant novel of growth, love, and healing from the bestselling author of Notes from an Exhibition.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gale, P. (2016). Tree Surgery for Beginners: A Novel . Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick, 1962-. 2016. Tree Surgery for Beginners: A Novel. Open Road Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick, 1962-. Tree Surgery for Beginners: A Novel Open Road Media, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gale, Patrick. Tree Surgery for Beginners: A Novel Open Road Media, 2016.
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