| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 554 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [559]). |
| Contents |
Coos County, New Hampshire, 1954 -- Under the logs -- Do-si-do -- A world of accidents -- The eight-inch cast iron skillet -- Boston, 1967 -- Nom de plume -- In media res -- Windham County, Vermont, 1983 -- Benevento and Avellino -- Dead dogs, remembering Mao's -- The fragile, unpredictable, nature of things -- Lady sky -- Honey -- Toronto, 2000 -- The blue mustang -- Kisses of wolves -- Coos County, New Hampshire, 2001 -- Ketchum's left hand -- Moose dancing -- Pointe au Baril Station, Ontario, 2005 -- Lost nation -- Ketchum excepted. |
| Summary |
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that spans five decades. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.0 34.0 134249. |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
|
|
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
|
|
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
|
|
Loggers -- Fiction.
|
|
Coos County (N.H.) -- Fiction.
|
| ISBN |
9781400063840 (acid-free paper) |
|
1400063841 (acid-free paper) |
|
