01569cam a2200301 i 4500 623790590 TxAuBib 20161213120000.0 161213s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016030671 9781410494597 1410494594 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda Watson, Larry, 1947-, author. As good as gone / by Larry Watson. Large print edition. ©2016. 493 pages 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It's 1963, and Calvin Sidey, one of the last of the old cowboys, has long ago left his family to live a life of self-reliance out on the prairie. He's been a mostly absentee father and grandfather until his estranged son asks him to stay with his family to live a life of self-reliance out on the prairie. He's been a mostly absentee father and grandfather until his estranged son asks him to stay with his grandchildren, Ann and Will, for a week while he and his wife are away. So Calvin agrees to return to the small town where he once was a mythic figure, to the very home he once abandoned. But soon trouble comes to the door, and Calvin knows only one way to solve problems: the Old West Way. (taken from book.) 20161213. Grandparent and child Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Fiction. lcgft TXKPL