Rule of the Bone
by:
Russell Banks (author)
Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts through dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of...
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Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts through dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of biker thieves, he finds refuge in an abandoned school bus with I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who dramatically changes his life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780747585312 (0747585318)
Publish date: November 20th 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary
I found pages of pure genius in this novel. So much better than 'Catcher in the Rye' that I would recommend choosing this work over the earlier one if reading time is scarce. My only complaint is the writing in dialect that gets tiresome over time and serves to confuse more than enhance. I found ...
Enjoyable but didn't really resonate with me. It's not a novel that will stay with me or that I will remember to recommend but it provided several nights of good reading so there's that.
I enjoyed this, but it isn't nearly as good as Continental Drift or Cloudsplitter. I was disappointed about the Oedipal-woman as sex object scene that went down near the end, that's for sure.
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