Know Your Beholder tom thorne

Know Your Beholder tom thorneFrom a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom. As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his once ascendant rock band's irreconcilable break up. Francis hasn't shaved in months, hasn't so much as changed out of his

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