The Snow Train - Softcover

Cummins, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 1888451238 ISBN 13: 9781888451238

Publisher: Akashic Books, 2001

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Fiction. This debut novel begins in 1952 and tells the story of a young boy whose sister is killed in a car accident, and who is haunted for years to come by her death. Told in an authentic child's voice Cummin's book is reminiscent of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. "A groundbreaking first novel that tackles nothing less daunting than the fragile psyche of early childhood" - Kaylie Jones, author of A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries.

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Possessed of that rarity, an authentic child’s voice, Joseph Cummins’ debut novel The Snow Train is a masterly work reminiscent of such twentieth-century classics as Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. By probing the darkest corners of childhood with an eerie, sometimes surreal clarity, Cummins allows us to inhabit those places that adults can rarely reach. The Snow Train is an achievement that will become etched in readers’ minds forever

About the Author:

JOSEPH CUMMINS was born in Detroit and now lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. The Snow Train is his first novel.

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