| Edition |
1st Fantagraphics Books ed. |
| Description |
318 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
Alvin Pendergast, a nineteen-year-old Illinois farm boy and tuberculosis survivor, falls prey to con man and killer Chester Burke, who promises him a job across the Mississippi in the summer of 1928, but instead involves him in a harrowing journey across the Midwest, but Alvin finds the courage to take charge of his own fate after bonding with a curious and clever dwarf Chester picks up along the way. |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction.
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Dwarfs -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781606992968 (hbk.) |
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1606992961 (hbk.) |
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