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.