Ceremony in Lone Tree

By Wright Morris

Subjects: Ghost towns, Birthdays, Nebraska, fiction, Fiction, Fiction, psychological, Older men, Family reunions

Description: "Although Tom Scanlon would just as soon spend it alone, his ninetieth birthday becomes the occasion for a family gathering in the Midwestern town of Lone Tree. The unlikely celebrants take this opportunity to reconceive their visions of past, future, and family in their own grotesque and ultimately liberating ways."--BOOK JACKET.