Back Roads
by O'Dell, Tawni
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670894184
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894185
- Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 338 pp. corners bumped, edge wear, edge wear to jacket; An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining countryHarley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.Funny and heartbreaking, O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.
Synopsis
Back Roads is the 2000 novel by the American writer Tawni O'Dell, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in March 2000.
Reviews
On Nov 12 2004, Natluvsbooks said:
I read this in one sitting. It's a captivating and unusual story of a family's life in Kentucky. An amazing first novel for Tawni O'Dell (and a personal favorite of Nat's).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kayleighbug Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006612
- Title
- Back Roads
- Author
- O'Dell, Tawni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670894184
- ISBN 13
- 9780670894185
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 9x6x1
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
- X weight
- 22 oz
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