Over the Line
Fifteen-year-old Justin Lyle does not see in himself the qualities he admires in heroes like his paternal grandfather, awarded a medal of honor during World War II, or in the fictional heroes of television and comic books. Growing up in the declining manufacturing town of East Liberty, New York-beset by unemployment, rising crime, and an influx of drugs, and encircled by struggling dairy farms-Justin feels isolated and decidedly unheroic. These feelings are intensified by his parents divorce, his longing for an unattainable girl, and the death, eight years previous but still a potent memory, of his infant brother. When Justin steps 'over the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8156-1022-9
- EAN: 9780815610229
- Produktnummer: 14051741
- Verlag: Syracuse Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 185 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 249 g
- Gewicht: 249
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