The Resource Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block
Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block
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The item Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "One warm West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss Township School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening -- and the unspoken story he carries -- will tear the town of Bliss, Texas, apart. Nearly ten years later, Oliver Loving still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State Assisted Care Facility, the fate of his mind unclear. Orbiting the still point of Oliver's hospital bed is a family transformed: Oliver's mother, Eve, who keeps desperate vigil; Oliver's brother, Charlie, who has fled for New York City only to discover he cannot escape the gravity of his shattered family; Oliver's father, Jed, who tries to erase his memories with bourbon. And then there is Rebekkah Sterling, Oliver's teenage love, who left Texas long ago and still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver's trapped mind, the town's unanswered questions resurface with new urgency, as Oliver's doctors and his family fight for a way for Oliver to finally communicate -- and so also tell the truth of what really happened that fateful night." --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 395 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250169730
- Label
- Oliver Loving
- Title
- Oliver Loving
- Statement of responsibility
- Stefan Merrill Block
- Subject
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- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueMemories
- Paralytics -- Fiction
- truePeople in comas
- trueSchool shootings
- trueSecrets
- trueSmall town life
- trueTexas
- City and town life
- City and town life -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueDysfunctional families
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural
- Families
- Families -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueGuilt
- Life change events
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- trueMass shootings
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "One warm West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss Township School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening -- and the unspoken story he carries -- will tear the town of Bliss, Texas, apart. Nearly ten years later, Oliver Loving still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State Assisted Care Facility, the fate of his mind unclear. Orbiting the still point of Oliver's hospital bed is a family transformed: Oliver's mother, Eve, who keeps desperate vigil; Oliver's brother, Charlie, who has fled for New York City only to discover he cannot escape the gravity of his shattered family; Oliver's father, Jed, who tries to erase his memories with bourbon. And then there is Rebekkah Sterling, Oliver's teenage love, who left Texas long ago and still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver's trapped mind, the town's unanswered questions resurface with new urgency, as Oliver's doctors and his family fight for a way for Oliver to finally communicate -- and so also tell the truth of what really happened that fateful night." --
- Assigning source
- From publisher's description
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10616278
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Block, Stefan Merrill
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Life change events
- City and town life
- Families
- Paralytics
- City and town life
- Families
- Life change events
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural
- FICTION / Literary
- Label
- Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1905424
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 395 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250169730
- Lccn
- 2017041748
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781250169730
- (OCoLC)988299533
- Label
- Oliver Loving, Stefan Merrill Block
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1905424
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 395 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250169730
- Lccn
- 2017041748
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781250169730
- (OCoLC)988299533
Subject
- trueInterpersonal relations
- trueMemories
- Paralytics -- Fiction
- truePeople in comas
- trueSchool shootings
- trueSecrets
- trueSmall town life
- trueTexas
- City and town life
- City and town life -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- trueDysfunctional families
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Small Town & Rural
- Families
- Families -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueGuilt
- Life change events
- trueLife change events
- Life change events -- Fiction
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- trueMass shootings
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