02879cam a2200373 i 4500 1262060506 TxAuBib 120510s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012017498 9781594487354 1594487359 9781410454591 1410454592 9781594487354 (OCoLC)19698 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BTCTA BDX IUK YDXCP JTQ IEP LF3 JP3 CDX BWX UPZ CHVBK TOH CNKFP OCLCF OVY OCLCO OCL OCLCO FEM OCLCO HTM SHM TXNES IOD QE2 SFR BYV OCLCQ IOU OCLCQ OCLCO QQ3 O2C BRL MIC OCLCA PBF TXMAL CUI OCLCO MLM XFF OCLCO AZU LMJ NZIPP NZAUC OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO YFZ OCLCO OCL OCLCO OCL OCLCO DWP OCLCO ALD OCLCO JCH OCLCO CKM OCLCO VYE OCLCO UOO OCLCO TVP OCLCO MTJ OCLCO OCLCA TxAuBib rda Doig, Ivan, author. The bartender's tale : a novel / Ivan Doig. New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., [2012] ©2012. 387 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an ""accident between the sheets"" whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is she, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt, Francine is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past more complex in the last moments of childhood""--page 2 of cover. Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his twelve-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father. Fathers and sons Fiction. Bars (Drinking establishments) Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Montana Fiction. Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. Psychological fiction.