Tom Gilroy
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Description
Set against the backdrop of the changing seasons has Paul, a short-fused ex-con who finds unlikely comfort, stability, and camaraderie when he takes an odd job in park maintenance. On his first day, he's teamed with Murph, a groundskeeping veteran who manages to defuse an outburst between Paul and their snide supervisor. Paul sticks with the job, and, as the months pass, he and Murph work their way through events both mundane and monumental, all the...
2) Sweet land
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand--Container.