Only Love Can Break Your Heart Contributor(s): Tarkington, Ed (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616205261 ISBN-13: 9781616205263 Publisher: Algonquin Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Sagas - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Crime |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2016286964 |
Lexile Measure: 900 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.75 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 178912 Reading Level: 5.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "A lush mystery-within-a-coming-of-age-tale-within-a-Southern-Gothic." --NPR Books "A richly textured portrait of small-town dysfunction and murder . . . Secrets abound, imaginations run wild." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool, Paul spends his days cruising in his Chevy Nova blasting Neil Young, cigarette dangling from his lips, arm slung around his beautiful, troubled girlfriend. Paul is happy to have his younger brother as his sidekick. Then one day, in an act of vengeance against their father, Paul picks up Rocky from school and nearly abandons him in the woods. Afterward, Paul disappears. Seven years later, Rocky is a teenager himself. He hasn't forgotten being abandoned by his boyhood hero, but he's getting over it, with the help of the wealthy neighbors' daughter, ten years his senior, who has taken him as her lover. Unbeknownst to both of them, their affair will set in motion a course of events that rains catastrophe on both their families. After a mysterious double murder brings terror and suspicion to their small town, Rocky and his family must reckon with the past and find out how much forgiveness their hearts can hold. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tarkington, Ed: - Ed Tarkington received a BA from Furman University, an MA from the University of Virginia, and PhD from the Graduate Creative Writing Program at Florida State. A frequent contributor to Chapter16.org, his articles, essays, and stories have appeared in Nashville Scene, Memphis Commercial Appeal, Post Road, the Pittsburgh Quarterly, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere. A native of Central Virginia, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee. |