Outside Boy A Novel

Name: Outside Boy A Novel
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ISBN: 9780451229489

ISBN-10: 0451229487

ISBN-13: 9780451229489

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jeanine Cummins

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A poignant debut novel of an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's by the author of the bestselling memoir A Rip in Heaven. Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling 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 peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle down temporarily in a town where Christy and his cousin can attend mass and receive proper schooling. But they are still treated as outsiders. As…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English