- Homeless persons, Sick, Fiction, Child sexual abuse
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
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Contemporary, grave, spare and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Adam Rapp, Timothy Basil Ering
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 179
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Candlewick Press, Candlewick
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417727322
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