Rule of the bone : a novel /

Banks, Russell, 1940-

Rule of the bone : a novel / Russell Banks. - 1st HarperPerennial ed. - New York : Harper Perennial, 1996. �1995 - viii, 390 p. ; 20 cm.

Wilson's Senior High School, November 2002 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 1996 School Library Journal, April 1995 Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), January 1997 Booklist, August 1997 New York Times, May 1996 Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 1995 Kirkus Review, February 1996

The story of a troubled fourteen-year-old boy who, upon leaving an abusive homelife, lives on the edge of society, struggling to find himself.

1530 Lexile. Adult Follett School Solutions.



9780060927240


Homeless persons--New York (State)--Fiction.
Teenage boys--New York (State)--Fiction.
Americans--Travel--Jamaica--Fiction.


Bildungsromane.

PS3552.A49 / R85 1996

813/.54