Gangsta Bone: Roman
Russell Banks
384 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 1400039932
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Language: German
Publish: January 1, 2003
Adult FictionComing Of AgeContemporaryFictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsRomanSchoolYoung Adult
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 and he gets a cross and bones tattoo on his arm, and adopts the moniker “Bone.” He finds refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in a boarded-up summer house.
Der 14-jährige Chappie schlägt sich allein durchs Leben, bis er dem schwarzen Rastafari I-man begegnet. Sein neuer Freund bringt ihm alles Wissenswerte über Hanfanbau, das Ich und den Kosmos im Allgemeinen bei. Die beiden brechen nach Jamaica auf – getragen von ihrer Abenteuerlust und dem festen Willen zu überleben …