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The Train of Small Mercies

The Train of Small Mercies

Rowell, David

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0425247457
ISBN13: 9780425247457
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Jun 5 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
In this stunning debut, David Rowell depicts disparate lives united in the extraordinary days that followed an American tragedy.

On June 8, 1968, as the train carrying Robert F. Kennedy's body travels from New York City to Washington D.C., the nation mourns the loss of a dream. As citizens congregate along the tracks to pay their respects, Michael Colvert, a New Jersey sixth grader, sets out to see his first dead body. Delores King creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her controlling husband. Just arrived in the nation's capitol to interview for a nanny position with the Kennedy family, Maeve McDerdon must reconcile herself to an unknown future. Edwin Rupp's inaugural pool party takes a backseat to the somber proceedings. Jamie West, a Vietnam vet barely out of high school, awaits a newspaper interview meant to restore his damaged self-esteem. And Lionel Chase arrives at Penn Station for his first day of work--a staggering assignment as a porter aboard RFK's funeral train.

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