· 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 www.doorway.ru: Penguin Publishing Group. Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, including Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She is also a contributor to several anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female. Her works have been published in more than forty www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels including Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Back Roads is currently in development to be made into a film by Michael Ohoven, the producer of /5().
The author, Tawni O'Dell, a thirty-six year old woman has chosen Harley, a year old boy as the narrator and protagonist for Back Roads. What makes Harley so convincing to the reader? How might the emotional and psychological preoccupations of the novel have changed if Amber had told the story? Or Callie? 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 talent. © Tawni O'Dell (P) Blackstone Audio, Inc. Family Life Sagas Small Town Rural Contemporary. A strong, thoughtful first novel that hews to time-honored fiction traditions, rooting a voyage of personal discovery in beautifully rendered particulars of character and place. We don—t know exactly what kind of trouble year-old Harley Altmyer is in when the story begins with him being interrogated by police officers, but we quickly learn that he's seen plenty of bad times already.
Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of five novels including Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. Back Roads is currently in development to be made into a film by Michael Ohoven, the producer of the Academy-Award-winning, Capote. Back Roads () is a contemporary thriller by Tawni O’Dell. Now a major motion picture, Back Roads follows a stifled and frustrated adolescent left to look after his younger siblings when his mother is sent to prison for killing his father. The book received widespread critical acclaim for its honest portrayal of survival, family dynamics, and adolescence. Tawni O’Dell is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, including Back Roads, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick and a Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection. She is also a contributor to several anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female. Her works have been published in more than forty countries.
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