Scissors, Paper, Rock: A Novel
by Fenton Johnson
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Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbor, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.Tags
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Fenton Johnson is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. He teaches at Spalding University, contributes to Harper's Magazine, and has been featured on Fresh Air. He lives in San Francisco and Tucson.
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- Original title
- Scissors, paper, rock
- Original publication date
- 1993
- People/Characters
- Miss Camilla Perkins; Tom Hardin; Rose Ella Hardin; Raphael Hardin; Elizabeth Hardin; Joe Ray Hardin
- Important places
- Strang Knob
- Dedication
- for Lawrence Thomas Rose and Margaret Melanie Beene
- First words
- On his workshop bench Tom Hardin lines up the woods he has chosen, his favorites: chocolate-brown walnut; ruddy cedar he has cut and cured himself; bleached white cypress, salvaged from mash tubs at the old distillery and sme... (show all)lling faintly of young whiskey.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You are the dark and fertile earth, into who I have whispered these stories.
- Blurbers
- Kingsolver, Barbara; Spanbauer, Tom; Abbott, Shirley
- Original language
- English US
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
