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005    20140128032740.0 
008    130404s2014    nyu           000 1 eng   
010      2013007605 
019    852226447 
020    9781476731636|qhardcover 
020    1476731632|qhardcover 
020    |z9781476731650 (ebook) 
020    9781476731643|qpaperback 
020    1476731640|qpaperback 
035    (OCoLC)852226447 
035    (OCoLC)836261224|z(OCoLC)852226447 
035    (OCoLC)852226447 
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043    n-us-pa 
049    CKEA 
050 00 PS3612.A944235|bR63 2013 
082 00 813/.6|223 
100 1  Lautner, Robert. 
245 10 Road to reckoning :|ba novel /|cRobert Lautner. 
263    1401 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c[2013] 
300    237 pages ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Touchstone book." 
520    British author Lautner impresses in his debut with a 
       crackling coming-of-age revenge tale set in the lawless 
       wilderness of pre-Civil War Pennsylvania. 12 year-old 
       Thomas Walker is accustomed to riding through the 
       northeastern United States on door-to-door sales errands 
       with his father, an early salesman of revolving pistols. 
       When a gang of robbers shoot his father, leaving Thomas an
       orphan on the road, he begins a harrowing journey back to 
       New Jersey to cash in his father's unredeemed sales 
       commissions, armed only with his resourcefulness and a 
       wooden sample model of the revolver. He soon meets Henry 
       Stands, a bounty hunter headed toward Philadelphia in 
       search of work. Despite Henry's reluctance, the two embark
       on a picaresque that eventually sees Thomas escape from a 
       sinister orphanage in daring fashion and confront his 
       father's murderers. Thomas recounts these formative events
       of his youth through the hindsight of adulthood with 
       wisdom that makes him an appealing narrator with a knack 
       for a poetic turn of phrase. The descriptions of the 
       wilderness and cities of 19th century Pennsylvania feel 
       particularly alive and specific. 
648  7 1775 - 1865|2fast 
650  0 Orphans|vFiction. 
650  0 Revenge|vFiction. 
651  0 Pennsylvania|xHistory|y1775-1865|vFiction. 
938    Baker and Taylor|bBTCP|nBK0013569876 
938    Brodart|bBROD|n105813028 
994    92|bCKE