Cummins, J: Outside Boy

Cummins, Jeanine

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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....
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Cummins, Jeanine
Titel
Cummins, J: Outside Boy
Uitgever
Penguin Publishing Group
Jaar
2010
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
384
Gewicht
318 gr
EAN
9780451229489
Afmetingen
216 x 140 x 25 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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