As Good as Gone

by Larry Watson

Book Overview

"Honest, warm, humane, and at times shocking, As Good as Gone is an achievement of empathy and dignity." --Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek

Calvin Sidey is always ready to run, and it doesn't take much to set him in motion. As a young man, he ran from this block, from Gladstone, from Montana, from this country. From his family and the family business. He ran from sadness, and he ran from responsibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616206950
• ISBN13: 9781616206956
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Watson transports you to a different time and place

Oh dang. Larry Watson hitting me in my feels again. One of the very few authors who makes me feel a sense of time and place. Of the brokenness and humanness of people. Beverly - the neighbor. I loved her. She and Calvin - the dialogue between made me smile big.