Cover of Runner

Book 2007

Runner

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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Published
2007
  • Running -- Fiction
  • Poverty -- Fiction
  • Mothers and sons -- Fiction
  • Organized crime -- Fiction
  • Running -- Juvenile fiction
  • Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
  • Richmond (Vic.) -- Fiction

In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.