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The story of a homeless youth living on the edge of society. His life is dramatically changed by an exiled Rastafarian, with whom he undertakes a journey of self-discovery, from the towns and malls of Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica.
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Written in the tradition of the great classics of American literature Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, Rule of the Bone is an astonishing novel about a homeless youth living on the edge of society -- a lost boy who maps the cruel world that surrounds him with mother-wit, humor and appealing honesty.
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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone."
He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.
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- PublisherMinerva Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0749395265
- ISBN 13 9780749395261
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The story of a homeless youth living on the edge of society. His life is dramatically changed by an exiled Rastafarian, with whom he undertakes a journey of self-discovery, from the towns and malls of Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001317019
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fine. Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alchoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts through dope squats and shopping malls. Until, leaving a group of biker thieves, he finds refuge in an abandoned school bus with I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who dramatically changes his life . 'Rule of the Bone is a magnificent book. I believed every word of it, forgot I was reading fiction. Russell Banks has created a story that is both shattering and reassuring, and a narrator, Bone, who will stay with me for the rest of my life' Roddy Doyle: 'Funny, moving and utterly convincing' Sunday Times: 'A spellbinding novel' Observer: 'If you've never read Russell Banks it's time you acquired the habit' Elmore Leonard. Seller Inventory # 115199
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