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Back Roads (Oprah book)

"Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all."--Publisher's description.

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  • "Een 19-jarige jongeman probeert in een stoffig, arm Amerikaans stadje voor zijn drie jongere zussen te zorgen en wordt verliefd op een getrouwde vrouw."
  • ""Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all."--Publisher's description."@en
  • "Twenty-year-old Harley Altmyer's life is "lousy with women." He looks after his three younger sisters, visits his mother in prison, meets with a psychiatrist, and is obsessed with a neighbor."@en
  • ""One day you're that guy who's happy he managed to survive high school and get that almighty piece of paper, and you're thinking you might try to get a job at Redi-Mix concrete where your dad's worked since the beginning of time. And at least you've got a family you can stand even if they are all sisters. One day you're that guy, and the next day you're assigned to a social worker and a therapist and given the choice of either being a LEGAL ADULT with three DEPENDENTS or an ORPHAN with NOBODY." --From Back Roads Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is. With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all. Funny and heartbreaking, Tawni O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent."@en
  • "Aan het einde van de wereld. - Een negentienjarige jongeman probeert in een stoffig, arm Amerikaans stadje voor zijn drie jongere zussen te zorgen en wordt verliefd op een getrouwde vrouw."
  • "Follows Harley Altmyer as he walks a raging, self-conscious line between crime and innocence. Why is he being held by the authorities, and what's he so mad about? In the recent past, it's his mother, who murdered his father and went to jail for life. In the far past, it's Dad himself: an abusive, hopeless man. In the present, it's the responsibility for his three younger sisters, which makes him fantasize about smashing their faces in until they "spit up bloody macaroni and cheese." But Harley still has a conscience--barely. He doesn't strike his sisters; he's been trying to protect them."@en
  • "With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, nineteen-year-old Harley Altmyer cares for his three sisters in a small Pennsylvania coal town, but despite his responsibilities, he is still a teenage boy and lusts after the mother of two who lives down the road."
  • "Twenty-year-old Harley Altmyer has seen plenty of hard times, it has been two years since hi mother went to jail for shooting his father, and now he is being interrogated by police officers."@en
  • "An Oprah's Book club, motherhood, backwoods life."@en
  • "Pennsylvanie, fin du XXe siècle. Quand Callie est découverte dans les bureaux de la mine désaffectée, Harley Altmayer, vingt ans, est le premier suspect. Deux ans plus tôt, lorsque sa mère a été incarcérée après avoir tué son père, Harley s'est retrouvé seul avec ses trois soeurs, endossant malgré lui le rôle de chef de famille. Mis à l'écart de la communauté, ils ont appris à se débrouiller..."
  • "A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister."@en
  • "A novel on a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister."
  • "After his mother is locked up in prison for murdering his abusive father, 19-year-old Harley Altmyer is left to take care of his three younger sisters, sullen Amber, 16; stoic Misty, 12; and wistful Jody, 6. Harley's life becomes more complicated when he becomes obsessed with his melancholy neighbor and mother of two, Callie Merser."
  • "A young man stays home instead of going to college in order to care for his younger sisters and develops a raging crush on a neighbouring mother of two."
  • "About a disfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The Mother is in jail for killing the father and the 4 children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister."
  • "In a small Pennsylvania town depressed by coal mine closings, a young man of 19 finds himself thrust into the role of parent. Harley has become the guardian of his three younger sisters as the result of their mother going to jail for the shooting death of their father. Harley is bitter about having to take over for his mother, and he can't shake the feeling that she prefers prison to their home life.; a mystery lingers around his father's death, and he's just developed an obsessive crush on the sexy, melancholic mother of two, living just down the road. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. Family secrets and the unspoken truths long held at bay collide with his obsession, unearthing a series of staggering surprises."@en
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."
  • "Back Roads transports us to the hills of western Pennsylvania and introduces a wonderfully touching narrator, Harley Altmyer. Watching Harley grapple with his sisters, his jobs, and his lover is by turns comic and suspenseful. This is a fast, furious, funny novel."@en

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Roman d'éducation"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromane"
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Oprah's Book Club Selection"

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  • "Back Roads (Oprah book)"@en
  • "דרכים צדדיות"
  • "Back roads"@en
  • "Back roads"
  • "Aan het einde van de wereld"
  • "Back Roads"@en
  • "Back Roads"
  • "Caminos ocultos"@es
  • "Caminos ocultos"
  • "Drakhim tsaddiyot"
  • "Back Roads: a novel"
  • "Back roads : [a novel]"
  • "Zabačene ceste"
  • "Back roads: novel"@en
  • "Back roads : a novel"@en
  • "Derakhim tsedadiyot"
  • "Back Roads : a novel"
  • "Arka sokaklar"
  • "Back Roads [a novel; Oprah's Book Club]"@en
  • "Back roads / S"
  • "Le temps de la colère"
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