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Author:	Russell Banks	Format:	--
Publisher:	Harpercollins	ISBN-10:	0060927240
Edition Description:	Reprint	ISBN-13:	9780060927240
Educational Level:	--	Product Type:	--
Publication Year:	--	Subject:	--
Language:	--	Condition:	Good

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In Russell Banks's bleak and compelling novel, Chappie is a punky teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in a trailer park. He falls in with a group of bikers and thieves, finally settling down in an abandoned schoolbus with a girl he rescues from a pedophile. There he changes his name to Bone and, eventually, meets an illegal alien known as I-Man, a pot-dealing Rastafarian. Together they embark on an adventure that takes them to Jamaica and a world of magic, violence, and redemption. In RULE OF THE BONE, Banks continues to explore his own fascination with Jamaica and its culture that he explored so thoroughly in his previous novel, THE BOOK OF JAMAICA (1980).
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Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	9.6 oz.

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When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.
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"RULE OF THE BONE is a magnificent book. I believed every word of it, forgot I was reading fiction. Russell Banks has created a story that is both shattering and reassuring, and a narrator, Bone, who will stay with me for the rest of my life." New York Times Book Review - Roddy Doyle "Banks offers wry, lacerating descriptions of blue-collar with America, whether in the mall, at Christmas, or on package tours....He gives an impressive new vitality to any number of old formulas in this unfailingly readable novel." Times Literary Supplement - Phil Baker (06/30/1995) "Banks's mastery of Bone's voice never falters, and his eye is always steady, mapping out an unsentimental education." Literary Review - Robert Yates

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Rule of the Bone: A Novel

Russell Banks

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0060927240
Publication Date:	1996-05-08
Publisher:	HarperPerennial

Pages:	390
Height:	1.1000 inches
Width:	5.0000 inches
Weight:	0.6000 pounds

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