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Synopsis
From the author of Against the Wind, a story of obstacles--on the track and in life--is the saga of a boy growing up in a tough blue-collar town on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Reprint.
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From Kirkus Reviews
Episodic coming-of-age tale from Freedman, here showing little of the flair for high melodrama that marked his robust literary debut, Against the Wind (1991). The title refers not only to the obstacle course at the Naval Academy at Annapolis that narrator Ray Poole, 15, likes to sneak onto during the winter of 1957, but also to the barricades to happiness that he must leap on his way...
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In 1957, 14-year-old Roy Poole dreams of escaping his grimy small-town life by attending the Naval Academy, where he runs the obstacle course when he is not hustling homework, trading insults with buddies, shoplifting, or robbing washing-machine coin boxes. A chance meeting with a retired admiral gives Roy a patron, but his hope for the future is endangered when he is accused of the one theft he...
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- PublisherSignet
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0451179889
- ISBN 13 9780451179883
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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