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Fourth of July Creek

Smith Henderson

Hardcover | Pages: 466 pages

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Title	:	Fourth of July Creek
Author	:	Smith Henderson
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 466 pages
Published	:	May 27th 2014 by Ecco
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.

After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.

But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Benjamin's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.

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Original Title:	Fourth of July Creek
ISBN:	0062286447 (ISBN13: 9780062286444)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Benjamin Pearl, Pete Snow
Setting:	Montana(United States) Tenmile, Montana,1980(United States)
Literary Awards:	James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2014), Oregon Book Award Nominee for Fiction (Finalist) (2015), CWA New Blood Dagger (2015), Montana Book Award (2014), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2014)

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I may cry.I wanted this book from the minute I saw the first blurb about it. I've drooled for it. Then I start reading it. I wasn't crazy about it. What is wrong with me!? I love this type of book. Gritty, dark and the souls of the characters are laid bare. Still didn't like it.The writing for me..and this should not stop anyone from reading it, was choppy and uneven. Half the time I didn't know what was going on or which character was being discussed.I think I'm gonna troll my damn self for

Wow! What a frustrating little big book. The writing style was so aggravating at times that I literally went from almost chucking it entirely, to considering it only middling, to finally settling on really liking it. I should have known once I discovered Smith Henderson won the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award, was a Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University, and a Pushcart Prize winner in fiction, that he would attempt to crush us puny readers with his mastery of the



There are several story lines occurring simultaneously in this novel, Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson and in the end, all lines converge and a bigger picture is revealed. The story takes place in the early 1980's in a small town .. so very small, in fact, that it really isn't map worthy.. the town of Tenmile, Montana. Narrating the story is Pete Snow, a social worker for the Department of Family Services. Pete is one of my favorite types of characters multi-faceted and complex. he is a

Well, right away have to chalk this up to being unsure if he's read the same book as everyone else -- or maybe just another case of bad timing (possibly/potentially right book at the wrong time/mood)? Getting the rating out of the way, it's a rounded-up 3 star "good" book, but unofficially 2.5 stars for just being on the fence about "liking" it. It is a grim, dark, bleak, gritty -- almost relentlessly so -- novel of dysfunction, violence, and abuse in rural Montana. This did not stop me from

Tenmile, Montana, a desolate town located in the western corner of the Rockies, a town of last resort for many. The people here are running to or running from, living an existence both squalid and desperate. Pete Snow is the lone social worker for this town, he has basically no oversight and not much support. He meets the dregs of society, druggies, people who live in and associate with filth, and the children of these people, victims of various ages with various scars, internal and external.

There should be fireworks shooting off for Smith Henderson's first novel, as it is a just cause for celebration. This is not to say that the subject matter is exactly festive, but the book is a triumph. Pete is a social worker in Tenmile, Montana, a place so insignificant it was named for it's distance from the nearest possible somewhere. The folks he is charged with trying to help out need all the support they can get, but some can't seem to accept any. There are three main threads braided