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The Outside Boy

by Jeanine Cummins
Alan Devally
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The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.
Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth.
The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.
As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother's mysterious past, changes his life forever....
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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Publisher: Macmillan Audio Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781250776006
  • File size: 355567 KB
  • Release date: June 2, 2020
  • Duration: 12:20:45

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  • ISBN: 9781250776006
  • File size: 355609 KB
  • Release date: June 2, 2020
  • Duration: 12:23:44
  • Number of parts: 12

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The Outside Boy is a poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from Jeanine Cummins, the national bestselling author of A Rip in Heaven and American Dirt.
Ireland, 1959: Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth.
The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling and prepare for their first communions. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.
As Christy struggles to find his way amid the more conventional lives of his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret from his mother's mysterious past, changes his life forever....
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

Expand title description text
Fiction Literature
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Macmillan Audio
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250776006
    File size: 355567 KB
    Release date: June 2, 2020
    Duration: 12:20:45

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781250776006
    File size: 355609 KB
    Release date: June 2, 2020
    Duration: 12:23:44
    Number of parts: 12

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English