Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America

Name: Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America
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ISBN: 9780312262402

ISBN-10: 031226240X

ISBN-13: 9780312262402

Edition: 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Ron Powers

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Ron Powers' hometown is Hannibal, Missouri, home of Mark Twain, and therefore birthplace of our image of boyhood itself. Powers returns to Hannibal to chronicle the horrific story of two killings, both committed by minors, and the trials that followed. Seamlessly weaving the narrative of the events in Hannibal with the national withering of the very concept of childhood, Powers exposes a fragmented adult society where children are left adrift, transforming isolation into violence. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore is a powerful, disturbing, and eye-opening dispatch from the homefront that will take its place alongside the works of Antony Lucas,…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/6/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Ron Powers is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lives in Vermont.



Acknowledgments


Map


Prologue



Robie and Will



Zach and Diane



Tom and Huck



At Hubbard and Hawkins



The Widow



Fathers and Sons



Market Street



A Spirit Goin' Round



Stored Children



Family Services



Jimmy



Town Boy



Kyle Wilson



Riding Shotgun



"Who is Robie Wilson?"



Postmortems



Leaving Hannibal



"Diane did it"



An Innocent Abroad



A Beautiful Day



Verdict



Jim



Plans



The Dream Palace


Index