Faraway Places by Spanbauer, Tom

Faraway Places (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976631187)

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Faraway Places by Spanbauer, Tom

Faraway Places

$15.95
Faraway Places by Spanbauer, Tom

Faraway Places

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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A vivid, hypnotic debut from 1988--now beautifully repackaged with a preface by the author and an introduction by A.M. Holmes--chronicling a thirteen-year-old boy in 1950s Idaho whose witnessing of a murder leads to a false accusation of a Black man that forever changes his view of his family and the world

During a fateful summer, 13-year-old Jake Weber witnesses the brutal murder of a Native American woman by the town banker. Jake's parents forbid him to speak of the killing or name its perpetrator, even as the woman's African American lover stands falsely accused. The crime and what follows it forever alter Jake's view of his parents and the world around him. Faraway Places won widespread praise for its vivid narrative and incantatory style, and Spanbauer displays singular skill in inhabiting the mind of a troubled adolescent boy.

Author: Tom Spanbauer
ISBN-10: 0976631180
ISBN-13: 9780976631187
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2008
Pages: 114
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.56w x 0.41d
By Tom Spanbauer
By Tom Spanbauer
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TOM SPANBAUER was born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, Idaho. Not really. The Princess Theater wasn't anymore by the time he came on the scene. He went to Catholic School until the eighth grade and then to Pocatello High School, then graduated from the newly finished Highland High. Five years at Idaho State University and he received a BA in English with a minor in German. In 1969 Tom went into the Peace Corps and he spent two years in Kenya, East Africa. Then came the 70s and the Married Years in Boise, Idaho. In 1978, Tom set himself free and moved to New England, then Key West, the finally settled in New York City for seven years. Tom, a survivor of AIDS, has lived and worked in Portland for fifteen years where he teaches Dangerous Writing. His novels include Faraway Places, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon, In The City of Shy Hunters, and Now Is The Hour.

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