Product Description

Bone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts though dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of biker thieves, he finds refuge in an abandoned school bus with I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who dramatically changes his life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #617675 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 390 pages

Review
'An immediate American classic, a Huck Finn for our times ... A wonderful novel, a true story of redemption' Mail on Sunday 'Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks ... Intoxicating and unsparing, Rule of the Bone is a romance for a world fast running out of room for childhood' Jonathan Franzen 'A magnificent book ... Russell Banks has created a story that is both shattering and reassuring, and a narrator, Bone, who will stay with me for the rest of my life' Roddy Doyle 'Funny, moving and utterly convincing' Sunday Times

Mail on Sunday
`An immediate American classic, a Huck Finn for our times ... A
wonderful novel, a true story of redemption'

Sunday Times
`Funny, moving and utterly convincing'

Customer Reviews

The Bone Rules!
This is a truly uplifting, funny, chilled and well-thought out piece of fiction. It was recommended to me by a friend a couple of years ago, and I took it along with me to a summer festival (which os a great environment in which to read this book by the way). I immediately became totally caught up in the main character's tale of emotional rags-to-riches, his love of simple things (gear, being cool, and chilling out) and is it narrated in one of the most authentic first-person styles I have ever read. Read this book and be uplifted and transported. This should be a cult classic if there is any justice in the world.

Rule of the Bone
'Bone' is a character we can all identify with. We all want to be as rebellious and carefree as him, and 'Rule of the Bone' is the easiest way to live it! You are swept along and around the places Bone takes you from trailer trash white America to Montego Bay in the Carribbean. And all this time you love the characters he loves, agree with his every decision even though you know they are inherently wrong and going to get him in a lot of trouble.

A landmark
Banks has written a novel of our world, but not the best or most enjoyable part of it. A must read -- also because it is well written, but not much fun on vacation.

John Eichrodt. France.