It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. He finally settles in an abandoned school bus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park.
Rule of the Bone has its own culture and language, and Bone is sure to become a beloved character for generations" (San Francisco Chronicle). In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks's quintessential novel of a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society "redefines the young modern anti-hero.
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