The Heaven of Mercury

Brad Watson

Original title: The heaven of Mercury

first published 2002 W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 352 pages

"Finus Bates has loved chatty, elegant Birdie Wells ever since he saw her cartwheel naked through the woods near the backwater town of Mercury, Mississippi, in 1917. Having "caught hold of some loose line in her that would attach itself to stray wildness" and never let go, he's loved her for some eighty years: through their marriages to other people, through the mysterious early death of Birdie's womanizing husband,...

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The heaven of Mercury edition · 2005 · Large Print Book Co.
The Heaven of Mercury edition · 2003 · W. W. Norton & Company · 352 pages · 9780393324655
The heaven of Mercury edition · 2002 · W.W. Norton · 333 pages

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