As Good as Gone

from susan0316

Calvin is an old cowboy who lives in a beaten down trailer in the plains of Montana in the 1960s. He avoids other people including the family that he abandoned years before after his wife died. As the story begins, his son Bill has come to ask him to stay with his two grandchildren while Bill tak...

from hubblegal

Calvin Sidey is an old cowboy who abandoned his two children when his wife, Pauline, died. He's living out in an old trailer, estranged from almost everyone who knew him. His son, Bill, asks him come to his house for a week or so to keep an eye on the kids while Bill's wife, Marjorie, has surgery...

from zmagic69

As Good As Gone, is the type of book where the promise of something happening is always just around the corner, but then it either fizzles out or is not realized the way the reader expected. The story takes place in the early 1960's in a small town in Montana. Calvin Sidey, is asked by his grown ...

from countrylife

That crotchety old man! I rooted for him through the whole book. Larry Watson's books are peopled with individuals who remain true to their characters. As we get to know the members of the Sidey family and the townspeople, he shares a piece of the puzzle along the way, then another piece falls in...

from katiekrug

"No matter how long they've been there, the people who live out here believe that whatever life demands of them they can meet it on their own. And perhaps they can. But Bill Sidey knows he's not cut from that cloth. The infinite sky that inspires certainty in some people breeds doubt in him, and ...