The Runaway
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688150330 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 406 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Smothers, Monmouth Cty. For larger and regional collections.?Joyce W. The dialog is authentic and the storytelling has a homespun Southern texture. After this terrifying episode, Kay's narrative abruptly changes direction: Frank, the soft-spoken town sheriff who learned about tolerance by fighting the Nazis, becomes the central character when he solves a series of racially motivated murders. A simpler plot and fewer characters might have served the theme better and made the book more appealing to YA readers. Lib., Manalapan, N.J.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Tom, the restless 12-year-old son of a sharecropper, is puzzled when the
A novel by the author of To Dance with the White Dog. Set in the South in the late 1940s, and using as its springboard the relationship of two boys--one black, the other white--The Runaway examines the joys, sorrows, conflicts, and racial disharmony of their historically biased environment.
Chaplain Brest said Powerful!!!. Very well written and full of well developed characters that make you feel as if you've known them your entire life. I particularly liked the way the author accurately depicted the true cruelty and also the goodness, people had and still have towards others for reasons none of us will likely ever understand.. Larry Hand said Evokes a difficult time and place. To really appreciate Terry Kay's "The Runaway" you need to have lived in that time and place -- Georgia, 19Evokes a difficult time and place Larry Hand To really appreciate Terry Kay's "The Runaway" you need to have lived in that time and place -- Georgia, 1949. I did, and I know that Kay has painted it perfectly. I knew those people, remember them well. Before reading the book, I'd read a generally positive review in an Atlanta newspaper, but one that said the book was "overpopulated with stereotypes." What I found was a true portrait of people and place. Like all Southern towns of that period, conformity wa. 9. I did, and I know that Kay has painted it perfectly. I knew those people, remember them well. Before reading the book, I'd read a generally positive review in an Atlanta newspaper, but one that said the book was "overpopulated with stereotypes." What I found was a true portrait of people and place. Like all Southern towns of that period, conformity wa. "A very fine story with repercussions for the future" according to A Customer. 50 years after the period during which they are portrayed to have occurred, Terry Kay has produced a wholly entertaining novel concerning the lives and times of peoples in the "deep South", those who had participated in WWII and how this apparently affected the way they considered their black neighbours afterwards.I would have considered "The Runaway" to be just like countless other novels, a way of excusing past acts which today would be considered inexcusabl