| Back Roads Contributor(s): O'Dell, Tawni (Author) |
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ISBN: 0451212452 ISBN-13: 9780451212450 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2004 Annotation: The poignant and hilarious "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah Book-of-the-Month club pick. "Not since S.E. Hinton ("The Outsiders") has a female novelist penned such a tough and titillating portrait of lower-class, crime-ridden manhood."--Amazon.com. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.7 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 36330 Reading Level: 4.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Funny and heartbreaking, this New York Times bestselling debut perfectly captures the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Harley Altmyer should be in college having the time of his life. He should be free from the backwards Pennsylvania coal town he calls home, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up everything is... Harley's mother is in prison for killing his father, so he's in charge of bringing up his younger sisters and working two jobs to pay the bills--and that doesn't leave a lot of time for distractions. But lately, he's getting more and more sidetracked by lusting after Callie Mercer, his middle-aged neighbor. As he struggles to keep it together, things begin to spin out of control. Soon Harley finds that as shattered as his family is, there are still more crushing surprises in store. "In Harley, O'Dell has created a hero who's heartbreakingly believable; like Holden Caulfield, he uses caustic humor to hide his pain. Readers will care very much about him and his future, if indeed he has one."--St. Petersburg Times |