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Truants: A Novel
Told in first-person short takes, Mr. Carlson's wistful, tangy picaresque novel has the feel of a psychological fable.
--Barry Yourgrau, New York Times Book Review
An amazingly gifted young writer.
--Pittsburgh Press
If you can read this one without getting a lump in your throat, turn yourself in to the nearest mortuary. Your heart has ceased to function. This book is about the innate hunger of the human heart to belong. To be part of a family unit whether or not there are blood ties. It's about the refusal of the American adult to be bothered with those young enough or old enough to be a nuisance. And it's about the most touching book I've read in many a moon.
--Carolyn Vaughter, Houston Chronicle
Truants is very good. Carlson writes with much wit and invention.
--Hilma Wolitzer, author of The Company of Writers
Ron Carlson is a wonderful observer of the quirks of life.
--Ann Beattie
Truants
W.W. Norton 1981
W.W. Norton paperback 1987
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