Faraway Places
by:
Tom Spanbauer (author)
A.M. Homes (author)
During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it...
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During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780976631187 (0976631180)
Publish date: March 17th 2008
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Small but not spare - Jacob John Weber focuses in on a summer where things change and goes over and over it. He has the observational powers that come when you spend a lot of time in your interior and when you live with a father who rules the mood and actions of the whole house and family. Good thin...
Small but not spare - Jacob John Weber focuses in on a summer where things change and goes over and over it. He has the observational powers that come when you spend a lot of time in your interior and when you live with a father who rules the mood and actions of the whole house and family. Good thin...
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