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Author Tarkington, Ed.

Title Only love can break your heart / a novel by Ed Tarkington. [Boundless electronic resource]

Publication Info. Algonquin Books, 2016.
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Summary "Love can make people do terrible things." Welcome to Spencerville, Virginia, 1977. Eight-year-old Rocky worships his older brother, Paul. Sixteen and full of rebel cool, Paul spends his days cruising in his Chevy Nova blasting Neil Young, cigarette dangling from his lips, arm slung around his beautiful, troubled girlfriend. Paul is happy to have his younger brother as his sidekick. Then one day, in an act of vengeance against their father, Paul picks up Rocky from school and nearly abandons him in the woods. Afterward, Paul disappears. Seven years later, Rocky is a teenager himself. He hasn't forgotten being abandoned by his boyhood hero, but he's getting over it, with the help of the wealthy neighbors' daughter, ten years his senior, who has taken him as her lover. Unbeknownst to both of them, their affair will set in motion a course of events that rains catastrophe on both their families. After a mysterious double murder brings terror and suspicion to their small town, Rocky and his family must reckon with the past and find out how much forgiveness their hearts can hold.
Audience 900L Lexile
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 15 178912
Accelerated Reader UG 5.8 15 178912
System Details Requires Boundless App.
Subject Teenage boys -- Fiction.
Stepbrothers -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Fiction.
Small cities.
Stepbrothers.
Teenage boys.
Genre Electronic books.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Added Author Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN 9781616205416 : $25.95
1616205415 : $25.95
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