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A Garden of Sand

Earl Thompson

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#2467 of 8,085 books · #1037 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1972).

Destitution, hunger, cruelty, rootlessness-all the odds stand against Jacky, the young boy at the center of this powerful, popular American classic, yet still he prevails. Resourcefully, doggedly, Jacky nurtures his spirit of independence, his capacity to love, and his faith in a nation's dream in a journey that takes him from Wichita to Corpus Christi and from poverty to possibility.

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Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN-13
9780881846539
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Coming of agePoverty and survivalResilience of the human spirit

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