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Bluff City Pawn

Bluff City Pawn

A Novel

by Stephen Schottenfeld
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/10/2014

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Huddy Marr, the proprietor of Bluff City Pawn shop in Memphis, is good at what he does: he knows jewelry, he knows guns and guitars. But the neighborhood is changing: A blood bank is set to open across the street from the retail space he leases from his brother Joe, and Huddy wants to move to a less seedy part of town. A pawn shop should stay right on the edge of seedy.

When a longtime client dies, his widow calls Huddy to come appraise his considerable gun collection. If he can buy up the guns, Huddy knows he can make a killing, possibly change his fortunes for good. But he needs cash up front, and for that he needs Joe. Soon the restless youngest, Harlan, is also involved-they could use the manpower to move the haul-and slowly the brothers' old family dynamics reassert themselves.

There is trouble inherent in these wares. There is trouble inherent in this family. And there is something inherent to Memphis . . . something that means a change of fortune can't come easy.

Stephen Schottenfeld's first novel is a masterful depiction of a city, a business, and a family. It is an investigation of class and law, ownership and value, loyalty, betrayal, and blood; one that gathers power and resonates long after it's done.
ISBN:
9781620406359
9781620406359
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
09-10-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x26mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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