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Paperback Duck Island Book

ISBN: 1554202035

ISBN13: 9781554202034

Duck Island

A young man returns to the town of his youth after a period spent on the road.

Unable to rekindle a high school flame, Cal Bedrick, who is Jewish, soon meets a very nice Catholic girl, Frannie Sinkiewicz, who falls hard for the troubled young man. Their courtship leads quickly to a marriage that fills their acquaintances with doubts.


The young couple's story is set against the backdrop of a fictionalized Wausau, Wisconsin, when the Vietnam War is drawing to an end. DUCK ISLAND is peopled by a cast of small-town archetypes: Frannie's conservative family including her brother / patriarch, Joey, manager of the town's convenience store where Cal gets a job; Father Lezsinski, the parish priest; Mr. Dula, who manages the men's shelter where Cal washes up; Frannie's best friend Wendy Gabrilska, and an assortment of war veterans, Indigenous people, immigants, the town's merchants, and local low-lifes who populate Wausau.

Like a David Lynch film, DUCK ISLAND vividly contrasts a society whose liberal surface conceals a troubled soul, which is revealed as the novel's events unfold.

Fiction. Jewish Studies.

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Format: Paperback

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