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The Borrower

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by Rebecca Makkai
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rebecca MakkaiAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-05-29Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143120957ISBN-10:143120956UPC:9780143120957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Family LifeSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCZ66RQ35W
The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers

"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?

Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780143120957ISBN-10:143120956UPC:9780143120957Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Family LifeSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCZ66RQ35W
Rebecca Makkai is the author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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