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The fortunate ones : a novel

Author: Ed Tarkington
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. ©2021
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : English : First editionView all editions and formats
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"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: Bildungsromans
Social problem fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ed Tarkington
ISBN: 9781616206802 1616206802
OCLC Number: 1130767545
Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
Responsibility: by Ed Tarkington.

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When Charlie Boykin was young, he'd thought his life with his single mother was really just fine. But when his mother's connections get Charlie into boarding school and give them access to the upper  Read more...

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