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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: New American Library
Published: Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0451212452
ISBN 13: 9780451212450

Media Reviews
Praise for Back Roads
An Oprah's Book Club Pick
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club

An intense story of family, frailty and dysfunction, set in the coal-mining towns of western Pennsylvania...captivatingly told. --Chicago Tribune

Tense...involving...deftly captures the voice of a teenage boy who's in trouble. --The New York Times Book Review

A page-turner...gritty, funny, sexy. --Chicago Sun-Times

Poignant...achingly beautiful prose...remarkable. --San Diego Union

Nearly impossible to put down. --The Denver Post

Outrageously unconventional...a very funny book. --The Baltimore Sun

Do not miss this one. --Mademoiselle

Author Bio
Tawni O'Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Back Roads, which was an Oprah's Book Club pick, a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection, and is now a major motion picture. She is also a contributor to several anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female. Her works have been published in more than forty countries.