| Author: |
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Neil Cross
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| Title: |
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Heartland: a memoir |
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No copies available |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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336 |
| Date: |
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2005-05-03 |
| ISBN: |
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0743263731 |
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Scribner |
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1.06 pounds |
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5.51 x 8.5 x 1.34 inches |
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| Previous givers: |
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2 Helen Frances (Australia), Helen Frances (Australia) |
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2 corinnejuliette (USA: NM), gemmas (Australia) |
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| Description: |
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Product Description
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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http://bookmooch.com/0743263731 |
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