Back Roads - Couverture rigide

O'Dell, Tawni

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670894184 ISBN 13 : 9780670894185

Editeur : Penguin Group USA, 2000

Synopsis

Book by ODell Tawni

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining country

Harley Altmyer should be freed from his closed-minded coal town with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor.  Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life really is.

With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery libido of a teenager.  Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters.  Once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, he wants her so badly he hears he will explode.  But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters.  Through every ordeal, he could never have known that his endearing humor, love for his sisters, and bumbling heroics would redeem them all.

Funny and heartbreaking, Tawni O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty.  Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.

Revue de presse :

"An intense story of family, frailty and dysfunction, set in the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania...captivatingly told." —Chicago Tribune

"Tense...involving...deftly captures the voice of a teenage boy who's in trouble." —New York Times Book review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Group USA
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0670894184
• ISBN 13: 9780670894185
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 338