Travers Corners
The Final Chapters
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Publisher Description
The final chapters of Scott Waldie’s iconic Travers Corners trilogy.
Travers Corners, Montana, is not much more than Main Street. There’s Ed’s Garage and Filling Station; McCracken’s General Store—still owned and run by Junior, the worst fisherman who ever lived to fish; the Tin Cup Bar and Cafe; Dolores’s Beauty Parlor; and The Carrie Creek Boat Works and Guide Service—Judson C. Clark proprietor.
And yet, Travers Corners is also much more than that main street: it’s an outpost for all things wild and beautiful—rivers and creeks, wildlife, cattle ranches, glaciated benchlands sweeping into the timbered mountains. Travers is a fly-fishing paradise. And it is people with the same cast of “witty homespun characters” (Library Journal) as Waldie’s first book of stories, Travers Corners. Now, in Travers Corners: The Final Chapters, Waldie delivers the final volume in the series, bringing joy and tears, love and closure to the lives of the characters we’ve grown to know and care so much about.
The simplicity of the rural West beckons from every tale: wisdom, trust, and good deeds, the loyalty of friends, the love of wild places, a respect for all living things—written with a wit that puts it all in perspective. The world would be a better place if we had all spent a spell in Travers Corners.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The fictional Montana town of Travers Corners, pop. 317, is a hub of fly fishing and the setting of this charming debut collection of eight stories. Waldie builds his tales around character, creating a small community of homespun folk who are quintessentially American and just a bit eccentric. Jud is a middle-aged boatbuilder and fishing guide, a perfectionist and dawdler with a generous heart and an eye for a prank. Junior runs the only general store and knows a lot about fishing but never catches any fish. Dolores is the town's beauty queen whom everyone has been in love with at least once. Uncle Sal, the Brooklyn transplant, is the bartender at the Tin Cup Bar and Cafe; he's been accepted by the townsfolk even though he's never cast a fly rod. Henry is Jud's best friend, also a fishing guide with deep thoughts and an appreciation of simple pleasures. In "Word Gets Around," gossip spawns rumor that ignites truth and finally makes history in a hilarious fish story about the one that got caught. "Three Yahoos" is a nostalgic yarn of teenage innocence, testosterone and the unpredictability of life. "Travels" finds that a burned-out musician and a worn-out rancher have a lot in common: both famous in their own worlds, each is envious of the other. Waldie's stories are noteworthy for their simplicity, affection and freshness.