- Americans, Teenage boys, Families, Bank robberies
After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Richard Ford
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 420
- Publisher
- Ecco Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061692048
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