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The Poet of Tolstoy Park by Sonny Brewer

The Poet of Tolstoy Park

by Sonny Brewer
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  • Mar 1, 2005, 272 pages
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  • Mar 2006, 288 pages
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If you live in or around Fairhope, Alabama ('a dozen miles as the laughing gull would fly across the bay from the port city of Mobile') you might be lucky enough to know Sonny Brewer, the owner of the Over The Transom Bookstore in Fairhope.  

The Poet of Tolstoy Park is his first novel,  A Sound Like Thunder will be published in August and he's currently working on the third volume of his Fairhope Trilogy: The Tumble Inn and Sit Down Café.

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This "beyond the book article" relates to The Poet of Tolstoy Park. It originally ran in March 2005 and has been updated for the March 2006 paperback edition. Go to magazine.

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