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Back Roads is the 1999 novel by the American writer Tawni O'Dell, and was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club selection in March 2000. [1] [2] [3] [4] Describing her novel and characters during an interview in 2000, O'Dell said: [5] "I didn't see it as a novel of redemption.... To me, Harley was the hero of this book.
27 dic 1999 · 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.
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- Tawni O'dell
Alma mater. Indiana High School. Northwestern University. Notable works. Back Roads (2000) Coal Run (2004) Sister Mine (2007) Tawni O'Dell (born 1964) is an American novelist. Her first published novel, Back Roads, was selected by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club in March 2000.
Starring Alex Pettyfer, Jennifer Morrison, Nicola Peltz, Robert Patrick and Juliette Lewis, the film centers on a young man living in the Pennsylvania backwoods who must care for his three younger sisters after his mother is arrested for murdering his father.
1 gen 2000 · Kirkus Prize. winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
- Tawni O’Dell
Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent. ABOUT TAWNI O’DELL. Tawni O’Dell, a western Pennsylvania native, earned a degree in journalism from Northwestern University. In addition to earning wages as a bank teller and a waitress, she put herself through college working as an exotic dancer jumping out of cakes at bachelor parties.
Living in the coal town of Laurel Falls in the backwoods of Western Pennsylvania, Harley lusts after a mother of two who lives down the road. Harley's life is further complicated when he becomes the lead suspect in a local murder mystery. Based on the novel Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell, a New York Times Bestseller and an Oprah Book Club Selection.
