{"product_id":"canal-boy-j-f-mcglinchy-9780595441884","title":"Canal Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a young boy, Iosa Geraghty talks, plays, and lives with his family's farm animals, until at the age of nine, he goes to work driving the horses pulling the boats that carry freight up and down the 400-mile Erie Canal. After some childhood adventures with his friends, Iosa has a falling out with his own family and runs away from home to live on the canal full time. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the city, Iosa meets one of New York's red-shirted firemen who introduces him to the city's vicious underside, as well as a young prostitute named Sibhon. The pair sell Iosa to Captain Caleb Black, skipper of a bogus canal chapel and the unscrupulous proprietor of a refuge for homeless drivers. Black, in turn, plans to sell Iosa and five other youths to prostitution houses in Buffalo and Chicago. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot long after Iosa's pet mare, Alice, helps Iosa and his friends escape, the sinister slave broker Black and his mate are accused of murdering a young boy. They become the focus of a bizarre manhunt, but the renegade captain eludes authorities. Iosa's intuition and Alice's nose might be just what the law needs to bring Black to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. F. McGlinchy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0595441882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780595441884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e iUniverse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"J. F. McGlinchy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44181085159679,"sku":"9780595441884","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9bbe2d08-60d8-40dc-86ca-4fe46b20c0a3.jpg?v=1690258475","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/canal-boy-j-f-mcglinchy-9780595441884","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}