The Charlatan's Boy
A Novel
I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud. As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village in the company of a huckster named Floyd. With his adolescent accomplice, Floyd perpetrates a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier, such as the Ugliest Boy in the World act. It's a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see young Grady perform as The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp. But what can they do? Nobody believes in feechies anymore. When Floyd stage…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-307-45823-0
- EAN: 9780307458230
- Produktnummer: 15727851
- Verlag: The Crown Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'175 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 8 - 12 J.
Über den Autor
Jonathan Rogers grew up in Georgia, where he spent many happy hours in the swamps and riverbottoms on which the wild places of The Charlatan's Boy are based. He received his undergraduate degree from Furman University in South Carolina and holds a Ph.D. in seventeenth-century English literature from Vanderbilt University. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee.
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