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Joe Coomer's eccentric fourth novel features two unlikely loners. First is thirty-year-old Lyman, who works the night shift as a courtesy patrolman on the highway that circles Fort Worth, Texas. Lyman's off-duty existence is no less of a loop. Hardened from a childhood as an orphan and convinced that the world is an arbitrary place, he limits his daytime routine to an unending series of such practical college courses as plumbing, aeronautics a...

Bevor der Tag zu Ende ist, wird die Worth Row, die Straße der Antiquitätenhändler, ein Feuer und einen Sturm, eine Geburt, einen Tod und die Aufdeckung auch noch des kleinsten Geheimnisses erlebt haben. Joe Coomer schafft es, die ganze Welt zu beschreiben - in der Geschichte einer einzigen Straße. >Die Liebe unter dem Garten< ist ein wundervoll menschlicher Roman, der zeigt, dass es immer etwas gibt, an das man sich halten kann und das wert i...

Lyman, 30 Jahre, Besucher unzähliger Collegekurse von Russisch bis Bogenschießen, hilft nachts gestrandeten Autofahrern weiter. Eines Tages erhält er überraschend Besuch in seinem Wohnwagen: Ein Papagei fliegt ihm zu, führt sich mit den Worten «lch bin ein Adler» ein und krempelt von da an Lymans Leben um. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Drei Frauen und der häßlichste Hund der Welt haben Unterschlupf auf einem Hausboot gefunden. Doch dann holt sie die Vergangenheit ein ... Joe Coomer hat wieder ein Buch über die etwas schrägere Variante des Lebens geschrieben. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

Zwei Freunde, ein Leichenwagen und die schönste Frau der Welt - eigentlich kann danach im Leben nichts mehr schiefgehen ... Joe Coomer erzählt von der ersten, der verrückten, der großen Liebe. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)

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Coomer is clearly an author of serious talent." -The Washington Post Book WorldInhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with feathers and seaweed, arrives with the tide. He is only the first of a series of unexpected visitors and is soon followed by a teenager running from an abusive father, a half s...

Nine weeks after losing her husband, Charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in New Hampshire, where her shipmates are an aging blue-haired widow, an emotional seventeen-year-old, and the ugliest dog in literature. A genuine bond develops among the three women, as their distinct personalities and paths cross and converge against the backdrop of emotional secrets, abuse, and the wages of old age. Off the boat, Charlotte, an archaeologist, joi...

Times are tough on Worth Row -- no one seems to want antiques these days, and that's all the twelve shops on the Row have to offer. But this is not to say that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture and glass eyeballs seem to grow in every yard. Just for starters, Carl the cabinet maker is secretly building a 34-foot sailboat out of (and inside) his house to prove his love for his neighbor, Nadine,...

Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the steps of his trailer one morning when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beak full of cryptic sayings. Could the birds mysterious past shed light on Lymans own?

As this novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, a girl learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.

Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the steps of his trailer one morning when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beak full of cryptic sayings. Could the birds mysterious past shed light on Lymans own?

As this novel turns from the hot, oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, a girl learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.