Townie

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Townie by Butman, John, 9781579620806
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  • ISBN: 9781579620806 | 1579620809
  • Cover: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 8/1/2002

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Townie takes place in Oldon, Massachusetts, a burgeoning New England village that has become the favored residence of the mega-rich, a town whose historic past has been preserved and polished until it gleams with the arrogant intensity of a Colonial theme park.

Alan Lowe inhabits a different Oldon, however, a town that he loved as a boy for the "power and rightness of its countryside." Now, in early middle age, he finds himself living on the margins of the changing town, in a camp deep within Oldon Woods, "inelegantly sheltered by a stale, army-surplus sheet, perforated here and there with pinholes and rudely draped into the equivalent of a teepee."

Then Alan's seemingly rootless life converges with that of Arthur Worthy, a member of the recently-arrived elite, whose life "bristles with appointments, trips, activities, possessions, responsibilities, and business urgencies." But Arthur lives on the margin, too, as alone and isolated in his mansion as Alan is in his teepee.

They share, as they discover, an unexpected connection, a woman named Anna, "who mus

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