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The runaway
- Title
- The runaway / Terry Kay.
- Author
- Kay, Terry.
- Publication
- New York : William Morrow, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3561.A885 R86 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 406 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- The Runaway is the novel Terry Kay has wanted to write his entire career: the story of the earliest beginnings of desegregation in the South. Set in the 1940s and using as a springboard the relationship of two boys - one black and the other white - who have been mysteriously ordained at birth to spark the flames of change, The Runaway examines the joys, sorrows, conflicts, and racial disharmony of their historically biased environment.
- Tom and Son Jesus spend their days daydreaming, fishing, and trying to escape work. But their fun abruptly comes to a halt when they discover a bone during a fanciful runaway. The bone turns out to be part of the skeletal remains of Son Jesus' long-missing father, and leads to an investigation by Sheriff Frank Rucker, a World War II hero, that unmasks the racially motivated killer known only as Pegleg.
- The sheriff's findings divide the people of Overton County, forcing a surprising conclusion - or beginning - of justice.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0688150330
- LCCN
- 97016737
- OCLC
- ocm36783869
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries