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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel
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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel
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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel
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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel

Written by Brad Barkley

Narrated by Carrington MacDuffie

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A widow in her mid thirties, Alison has been in mourning for two years. She lives with her sister and brother-in-law in West Virginia, and they are urging her to get on with her life and move back home. Alison promises to leave--just as soon as she renovates a nearly-ruined 1976 Corvette rusting in their garage. Problem is, she doesn't know the first thing about cars, and the fact that the townspeople (with the exception of a cute demolition man) are bewildered by a woman messing with automotive parts does not help.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 7, 2002
ISBN9781415912348
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Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel
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Brad Barkley

Brad Barkley, a native of North Carolina, is the author of the novels, Money, Love, which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense 76 choice, and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual, also a Booksense 76 pick. Money, Love was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post and Library Journal. Barkley was named as one of the "Newcomers of 2002: Breakthrough Writers You Need to Know" by Book magazine. He is also the author of a previous story collection, Circle View. His short fiction has appeared in more than two dozen magazines, including the Southern Review, the Georgia Review, Oxford American, the Greensboro Review, Glimmer Train, Book magazine, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which has twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction. His work was anthologized in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2002 and again in 2003. Another Perfect Catastrophe is latest book. He has won four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Brad Barkley teaches creative writing at Frostburg State University. He lives in western Maryland with his wife, Mary, and two children.

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