The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins

The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.

Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth.

The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.

As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother's mysterious past, changes his life forever....

Jeanine Cummins is the author of the bestselling memoir A Tear in Heaven and the novels The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch. Her husband and two children live in New York with her.

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ISBN 13	9780451229489
ISBN 10	0451229487
Titel	The Outside Boy
Autor	Jeanine Cummins
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-06-01
Seitenanzahl	384
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