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The Borrower: A Novel Trade paperback - 2012
by Rebecca Makkai
- Used
- Paperback
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. The odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets, an inconvenient boyfriend, and an upsetting family history.
Description
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Details
- Title The Borrower: A Novel
- Author Rebecca Makkai
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - General
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, NY
- Date May 2012
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 74971
- ISBN 9780143120957 / 0143120956
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Boys, Humorous fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls
Lucy Hull, a children’s librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy’s help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him camped out in the library after hours, and the odd pair embarks on a crazy road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents?