Goliath

When Percy Harding, Goliath€™s most important citizen, is discovered dead by the railroad tracks outside town one perfect autumn afternoon, no one can quite believe it€™s really happened. Percy, the president of the town€™s world-renowned furniture company, had seemed invincible. Only Rosamond Rogers, Percy€™s secretary, may have had a glimpse of how and why this great man has fallen, and that glimpse tugs at her, urges her to find out more. Percy isn€™t the first person to leave Rosamond: everybody seems to, from her husband, Hatley, who walked out on her years ago; to her complicated daughter Agnes, whose girlhood bedroom was papered with maps of the places she wanted to escape to. The town itself is Rosamond€™s anchor, but it is beginning to quiver with the possibility of change. The high school girls are writing suicide poetry. The town€™s young, lumbering sidewalk preacher is courting Rosamond€™s daughter. A troubled teenaged boy p