Seaview (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976631163)

Toby Olson's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel follows Allen-a golf hustler-and his wife, Melinda, across an American wasteland to return Melinda to her childhood home on Cape Cod; Melinda is dying of cancer and hopes to reach the seaside where she was born before her end comes. Allen earns their way east by hustling at courses en route. Outside of Tucson, the two meet a Pima Indian and activist named Bob White, who joins them on the remainder of their journey for mysterious reasons of his own. Allen's former friend, Richard, a cocaine dealer whom he has crossed and who is now determined to kill him, follows closely behind; the lines that draw these people together end at Seaview Links, where the novel reaches its apocalypse.