Rule of the Bone

Published alongside Cloudsplitter in November 2006 for the first time by Bloomsbury Russell Banks is the author of The Darling, The Sweet Hereafter and Continental Drift

A stunning novel of our times with a unique character - Bone - who will stay with you long after this book has endedBone is a punked-out teenager, living in a trailer with his alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he's now into drugs and shoplifting as he drifts through dope squats and shopping malls. Until, breaking away from a group of biker thieves, he finds refuge in an abandoned school bus with I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian who dramatically changes his life.