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In this coming-of-age story, Marshall, a wisecracking African-American teenager in suburban St. Louis, deals with his mother's desertion of the family and his friend's abusive father. A first novel. Original.
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ld Finney was named after a department store and dropped like a hot potato when his mother suddenly packed up and left. Now Marshall lives with his hard-drinking father in a crackerbox house and rides a yellow bus through beautiful St. Louis County to his mostly white suburban school. Caught at a crossroads, Marshall is desperately searching for something to believe in. At stake is only the rest of his life.
In this extraordinary novel, David Haynes tells the heartrending story of Marshall's journey through a broken world, where his father's new girlfriend, a poem by Yeats and a white teacher with big plans for her favorite students all seem to have the power to change him. And as Marshall struggles to make sense of his life, the haunting letters begin to arrive from his runaway mother: "We are linked tighter than fine gold chains. Who knows when we'll next be together--"
A tale of the ties that bin
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In this extraordinary novel, David Haynes tells the heartrending story of Marshall's journey through a broken world, where his father's new girlfriend, a poem by Yeats and a white teacher with big plans for her favorite students all seem to have the power to change him. And as Marshall struggles to make sense of his life, the haunting letters begin to arrive from his runaway mother: "We are linked tighter than fine gold chains. Who knows when we'll next be together--"
A tale of the ties that bin
"Enjoyable reading--witty insight--Haynes has created a likeable, heroic character."
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A charming debut--a funny and cynical coming-of-age novel."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Marvelous--[Haynes] has created one of the most vivid and idiosyncratic first-person narrators I've run up against in recent years. You trust Marshall's voice, and you trust Haynes' gifts. He's a prose writer of the first order."
--Hungry Mind Review
--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"A charming debut--a funny and cynical coming-of-age novel."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Marvelous--[Haynes] has created one of the most vivid and idiosyncratic first-person narrators I've run up against in recent years. You trust Marshall's voice, and you trust Haynes' gifts. He's a prose writer of the first order."
--Hungry Mind Review
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- PublisherNew Rivers Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0898231477
- ISBN 13 9780898231472
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages181
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