The Clarinet Polka
Original title: The clarinet polka
first published 2002 Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2003 406 pages
"The year is 1969, and young Jimmy Koprowski returns from his stint in the air force to Raysburg, his blue-collar Polish-American hometown where nothing much happens beyond working at the steel mill, going to Mass, and getting drunk at the local PAC. Jimmy's efforts at rebuilding his life result in sleeping off hangovers in his parents' attic and drifting into a destructive affair with a married woman.". "But things...
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