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Scribner, February 2002
eBook, 208 pages
ISBN-10: 0684871246
ISBN-13: 9780684871240
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Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" -- and a mysterious past. Convinced that heeding the bird's wisdom will lead him to answers about himself he so desperately seeks, Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman, circling the highway that loops around Fort Worth, with days in the library. Together with Fiona, the loquacious librarian, he traces his adopted pet's origins, and while what Lyman ultimately discovers may not help him piece together his own past, it paves the way for a future he never imagined.
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The New Yorker
Impossible to resist.
Amanda Heller
The Boston Globe
Coomer writes so well, with such freshness and authenticity, that we hate to put the book down.
Corinna Lothar
The Washington Times
Joe Coomer is a marvelously creative comic writer: Lyman's lonely, lively mind, his generous and timid spirit, Fiona's quirky originality, and, of course, the aged parrot who proudly announces, "I'm an eagle," take the reader on an adventurous, and all to brief, ride around the Fort Worth loop.
Tom Pilkington
The Dallas Morning News
Funny, briskly paced...heartwarming...a wonderful book.
Pegasus News, October 5, 2011
...I chose to be a writer, and it was the best thing for me." - Texas writer Joe Coomer Author Joe Coomer Joe Coomer's novel The Loop was published in 1992. After 19 years in development purgatory, a movie based on The Loop (a New York Times ...
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