Rule of the Bone - Softcover

Banks, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747585318 ISBN 13: 9780747585312

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2006

Synopsis

Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts through dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of biker thieves, he finds refuge in an abandoned school bus with I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who dramatically changes his life.

About this title

Review:

`A magnificent book ... Bone will stay with me for the rest of my
life' -- Roddy Doyle

`A spellbinding novel' -- Observer

`An immediate American classic, a Huck Finn for our times ... A
wonderful novel, a true story of redemption' -- Mail on Sunday

`Funny, moving and utterly convincing' -- Sunday Times

`If you've never read Russell Banks it's time you acquired the
habit' -- Elmore Leonard

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0747585318
• ISBN 13: 9780747585312
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304