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Lucky turtle / a novel by Bill Roorbach.

Roorbach, Bill, (author.).

Summary:

"When privileged white sixteen-year-old Cindra is sent to a reform camp in Montana, she becomes transfixed by Lucky, a mysterious camp employee. As the connection between them grows, Lucky and Cindra become lovers and escape into the Rocky Mountains to create an idyllic life, living off Lucky's vast knowledge of the wilderness."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643750972 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 407 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022.
Subject: Camps > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Reformatories > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Wilderness survival > Fiction.
Camps > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Reformatories > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Wilderness survival > Fiction.
Montana > Fiction.
Montana > Fiction.
Rocky Mountains > Fiction.
Rocky Mountains > Fiction.
Genre: Young adult fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch FIC Roorb 31681010274967 FICTION Available -

Bill Roorbach is the author of ten books, including the Montana Award-winning Lucky Turtle, The Girl of the Lake, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love, the bestselling Life Among Giants, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for over twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic,The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine, The American Scholar, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.


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