An edition of The school on Heart's Content Road (2008)

The school on Heart's Content Road

1st ed.

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An edition of The school on Heart's Content Road (2008)

The school on Heart's Content Road

1st ed.

The school on Heart's Content Road spirals out from the story of Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from his home by his overwrought half-brother. With the help of his new friend, Rex York, the captain of the local militia, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement. Run by a man known to many as 'The Prophet,' the Settlement is a rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and locally made goods. Falsely demonized by the media as a compound of sin, the Settlement's true nature remains foreign to outsiders. It is at the Settlement where Mickey's life collides with that of another deserted child, six-year-old Jane--a cunning, beautiful girl of mixed race, whose mother is in jail on trumped-up drug charges. 'Secret Agent' Jane prowls the Settlement in her heart-shaped sunglasses, imagining that her childish plans to bring down the community will reunite her with her mother. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane witness the mounting unrest within the Settlement's ranks, which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo. Vehement and poetic, The School on Heart's Content Road questions the nature of family, struggle, and authority in an intensely diverse nation. It is an urgent plea from the disenfranchised who, though disregarded and shoved to the fringes of society, refuse to be silenced.

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English
Pages
384

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Cover of: School on Heart's Content Road
School on Heart's Content Road
2009, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: School on Heart's Content Road
School on Heart's Content Road
2009, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: The school on Heart's Content Road
The school on Heart's Content Road
2008, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
in English - 1st ed.

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Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3553.H87 S36 2008, PS3553.H87S36 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
384 p. ;
Number of pages
384

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23106549M
Internet Archive
schoolonheartsco00chut
ISBN 10
0871139871
ISBN 13
9780871139870
LCCN
2009291067
OCLC/WorldCat
209584311
Library Thing
5973033
Goodreads
2995947

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