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An edition of Back roads (1999)

Back roads

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"Harley Altmyer, the heartbreaking and lovable hero of Tawni O'Dell's debut novel, should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his stifling coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three beloved but unruly younger sisters.

He has, at best, a shaky hold on the vicissitudes of day care, mac and cheese dinners, and visits to a once-devoted mother who seems not only resigned, but glad to hand over the reins of motherhood to her son.".

"Life is further complicated when he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two down the road. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. Family secrets and the unspoken truths long held at bay collide with his obsession, unearthing a series of staggering surprises."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
338

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Subjects

Teenage boys, Married women, Psychological fiction, Brothers and sisters, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Fiction, Murder, Domestic fiction, Young men, Large type books, Orphans, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, sagas, Pennsylvania, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Siblings, fiction

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2012, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Back Roads
June 1, 2004, NAL Trade
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Back roads.
2001, Black Swan, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
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Back roads.
2001, Signet
in English
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Back roads
2000, Black Swan, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
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Back roads
2000, Thorndike Press
in English
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Back Roads
Apr 10, 2000, Books on Tape, Inc.
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Back roads
2000, Viking
in English
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Back Roads
2000, Penguin Random House
in English
Cover of: Back roads
Back roads
1999, Viking
in English

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3565.D428 B33 2000, PS3565.D428B33 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 338 p. ;
Number of pages
338

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL35588M
Internet Archive
backroads00odel
ISBN 10
0670887609
LCCN
99020649
OCLC/WorldCat
40891038
Library Thing
4093
Goodreads
1786881

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OL12340W

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"All those times me and Skip tried to kill his little brother, Donny, were just for fun."

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