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After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.

Main Author: Ford, Richard, 1944-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Ecco, 2013, c2012.
Edition: 1st Ecco pbk. ed.
Subjects:
Teenage boys > Fiction.
Americans > Canada > Fiction.
Bank robberies > United States > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Saskatchewan > Fiction.
Bildungsromans > Canada.
Summary: After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dell's quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan.
Item Description: Reprint. Originally published: 2012.
Physical Description: 420 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0061692034 : PAP
9780061692031 : PAP
Author Notes: He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1944 & grew up there & in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Michigan State University & received an M. F. A. in 1970 from the University of California at Irvine. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts & American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He was also given the 1994 Rea Award. In 2001 he was awarded the PEN/Malamud prize. He made The New York Times Best Seller List for his title's Canada and Let Me Be Frank with You. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with his title, Let Me Be Frank With You.

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