Product Description

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #873142 in Books
• Published on: 1996-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 390 pages

Roddy Doyle
`A magnificent book ... Bone will stay with me for the rest of my
life'

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

My favourite book
A wonderful moving story that has been compared with Huckleberry Finn. The author's best work in my opinion. I felt like I as there with the central character every step of the way. Just writing about it now makes me want to pick it up for a third time. Gotta go!

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.

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.