Julep Street

by Craig Lancaster

Overview

A middle-aged man, an ancient dog, and a new Mustang. A search for sustenance in a battered America.Carson McCullough has given his career to a singular pursuit-putting out a small daily newspaper that keeps his employees engaged and his hometown informed. But as time and technology conspire against him, Carson's Argus-Dispatch is shuttered by an owner with a different view of its future.Stung by the abrupt end of his career and burdened by regret and grudges, Carson and his one true companion, a yellow Lab named Hector, set out on a road trip. As the miles pile up and Carson erratically drives into the residue of past decisions and the consequences of current actions, he confronts questions of love, faith, self-worth, and, perhaps most pressing, whether he can redefine himself after his identity is stripped away.In his seventh novel, Craig Lancaster (600 Hours of Edward, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter) returns to the broad themes of his award-winning work and goes deeper yet, straight into the heart and mind of a good man who has lost his way and is struggling against himself to set things right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982782248
Publisher:	Missouri Breaks Press
Publication date:	04/12/2017
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Craig Lancaster is the author of such novels as 600 Hours of Edward and Edward Adrift, and a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers as a writer and an editor. 600 Hours of Edward, his debut, was a Montana Honor Book and the 2010 High Plains Book Award winner for best first book. His work has also been honored by the Utah Book Awards (the novel The Summer Son) and with an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal (the short-story collection The Art of Departure), among other citations. Before writing fiction, he worked at newspapers big and small in Texas, Alaska, Ohio, California, Washington, Montana and, yes, Kentucky. He's never crossed the Maxine Brockbirch Bridge (it's fictional), but he knows that stretch of the Ohio River well from another time and place. Long may it roll. Lancaster lives in Billings, Montana, with his wife, bestselling author Elisa Lorello (Faking It, Pasta Wars, The Second First Time).

Editorial Reviews

“Craig Lancaster pairs the dissolution of an industry with the unraveling of a most sympathetic life. It’s a tragi-comedy that keeps urging us to turn the pages. Like only the finest novels, it manages to be both heartbreaking and hilarious, and often within the same paragraph.”—Allen Morris Jones, author of A Bloom of Bones and Last Year’s River

“Lancaster knows the walking wounded, and writes about them better than anyone else. He’s been there with them, he knows their foolish dreams, their fragile hopes for the miracle that will let them climb out of their open graves.”—Richard Wheeler, six-time Spur Award winner

“Julep Street is gentle yet brutal, sharply funny, and full of gorgeous light and shade.”—Louise Beech, author of The Mountain in My Shoe

“The laid-off editor carries all the woe of our difficult economic times, the loss of meaningful work that leads to a collapsing sense of self-worth and purpose. Don’t get me wrong—this is often an incredibly funny novel, even if we wince as we chuckle. But Craig Lancaster has tapped into dire issues in our time.”—Ken Egan, author of Montana 1864

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