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Bowen, Sarina
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Fiction
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2020
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Tuxbury Publishing LLC
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English
β 177 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Heartland
β Scribed by Cross, Neil
- Book ID
- 110445013
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781847396570
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
When Neil Cross was five years old, his mother left him. No note, no phone call, just an empty house and a brow-beaten father. Two years later, she came back for her son. She was not alone.
Neil's new step-father was a South-African white supremacist. He was a serial adulterer, a thief, a con man, a racist and a liar. And in many ways, he was the perfect father. In their backstreet Edinburgh slum, Derek Cross introduced Neil to Tom Sawyer, Kidnapped, and The Three Musketeers, and whilst his step-son battled violent anti-English racism everyday in the playground, Derek discovered a new way to isolate his family; he became a Mormon Bishop in the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
This is a story about being raised a racist and an outsider - and overcoming it; about family and step-family; about class and religion; and about how resentment breeds violence. And it's about what, in the end, the love of books can do for you.
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