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Back roads

O'Dell, Tawni. (Author).

Summary: A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.

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  • ISBN: 0670894184
  • ISBN: 9780670887606
  • ISBN: 0451202341 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780670894185
  • ISBN: 0670887609
  • Physical Description: viii, 338 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: New York : Viking, 2000.
Subject: Orphans -- Fiction
Mariticide -- Fiction
Youth -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
Women murderers -- Fiction
Child rearing -- Fiction
Antiheroes -- Fiction
Pennsylvania -- Fiction
Genre: Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Topic Heading: Oprah Winfrey Book Club.
Oprah club

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Summary: A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.

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