The Book of Hard Things
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781615519187 (1615519181)
Publish date: October 8th 2003
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
This is a paint-by-numbers tale of a small-town boy who begins to see beyond his limited horizons when he comes into contact with a worldly man, visiting his hamlet on a temporary assignment. Lousy and lazy (especially in its depiction of the rural poor), the book feels like it was written with a ch...