Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.
Genre: General Fiction
Genre: General Fiction
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September 2009 : USA Hardback
September 2009 : USA Hardback
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January 2011 : UK Paperback
October 2010 : USA Paperback
April 2010 : UK Paperback

Title: Spooner
Author(s): Pete Dexter
ISBN: 1-84887-339-5 / 978-1-84887-339-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Availability: Amazon UK
Audio Editions
September 2009 : USA Audio edition
September 2009 : Canada Audio edition
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January 2011 : UK Kindle edition
September 2009 : USA, Canada Kindle edition