Back roads

Tawni O'Dell

first published 1999 Black Swan, 2000 352 pages

"Harley Altmyer, the heartbreaking and lovable hero of Tawni O'Dell's debut novel, should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his stifling coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three beloved but unruly younger sisters. He has, at best, a shaky hold on the vicissitudes of day care, mac and...

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Editions we hold

Back Roads edition · 2012 · Transworld Publishers Limited · 9781448125968
Back Roads edition · 2004 · NAL Trade · 352 pages · 9780451212450
Back roads. edition · 2001 · Signet
Back roads. edition · 2001 · Black Swan · 352 pages
Back roads edition · 2000 · Black Swan · 352 pages
Back roads edition · 2000 · Thorndike Press · 511 pages
Back roads edition · 2000 · Viking · 338 pages
Back Roads edition · 2000 · Penguin Random House · 9780670834419
Back Roads audiobook · 2000 · Books on Tape, Inc. · 9780736651042

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