Rebecca Makkai

The Borrower

A Novel

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The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great BelieversRarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower. -Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire FallsLucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian when she finds him camped out in the library after hours, and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-312095-7
EAN: 9780143120957
Produktnummer: 12031831
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 352 S.

Über den Autor

Rebecca Makkai's stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2008, 2009, and 2010, and have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, and on NPR's Selected Shorts. Makkai teaches elementary school and lives north of Chicago with her husband and two daughters.