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Big Jack Evans is a work of fiction that spans nearly a century and a half, following five generations from nineteenth century Russia to present day southern Illinois. From Jimmy Boldin in 1874, the privileged only child of hardworking immigrants, to Jeff Jordan in 2015, we see the good, the bad, and the truly ugly side of human nature.Jack Evans is thrown into a world without much mercy, and he is driven to not only survive, but to excel through the most tragic circumstances. Along the way, we meet Andy, a man approaching the last third of his life who is struggling to make some sense of his own journey, along with a cast of characters throughout the years that reflect the American experience.When Andy and Jeff's worlds are incidentally intertwined by an overheard conversation in a small town restaurant, neither of their lives would ever be the same.

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Author J.L.'Larry' Robinson grew up in a small farming community in southern Indiana, one of thirteen brothers and sisters where there was rarely a quiet moment. A poor but hardworking family, his father, Charles, supported the family by doing any sort of job he could get his hands on; a regular trash hauling route that Larry and his brother helped with on the weekends, salvaging copper, etc. His mother, Laura, was a stay at home mom for most of his young life and there was always a huge garden to help feed everyone. Looking back, the trash route was where his sense of humor came from; the best times of his young life were spent trying to keep up with his older brother picking up burn barrels, dumping them into the old man's beat up pickup from several townspeople's back yards and hauling them to the town dump. After graduation he joined the Navy where he spent three years, marrying and divorcing three times over the years, with four children along the way. Nowadays, he is semi-retired and spends most of his free time writing and spending as much time around his grandchildren as possible while futilely trying to remodel his house.

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