Name: The Outside boy
SKU: 3149146
Price: 16.72 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Cummins, Jeanine
ISBN: 9780451229489

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jeanine Cummins

Publisher

Berkley Books

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6x13.7x2.5 cm

Weight

0.32 kg.

ISBN

9780451229489

ISBN13

9780451229489

Synopsis "The Outside boy "

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt. Ireland, 1959 Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders. As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother's mysterious past, changes his life forever....

Jeanine Cummins

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Jeanine Cummins is the author of four books: a memoir, A Rip in Heaven, which became a bestseller in the United States, and two novels. American Dirt, her third novel, has become an international phenomenon and the rights have been sold to 24 countries. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.

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