Used book – Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks, Pierre Furlan

“My existence became interesting, let's say, the summer I was fourteen. I was really into smoking weed and since I didn't have any money to buy pot, I started rummaging through the house all the time to find things to sell – but there wasn't much.”

It is then that Bone, with his Mohawk, his pierced nose, and the foundational tattoo of his identity – crossed bones – hits the road, and the novel unfolds through his adventures and his encounters with all the outcasts, adventurers, and wise men that America, then Jamaica, have to offer.

A powerful coming-of-age novel, akin to a road movie, and which became the emblematic text of a certain American youth at the end of the 20th century.

«Born in New England in 1940, Russell Banks is the author of a body of work – entirely published in France by Actes Sud – that establishes him as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation. In 1998, he was appointed a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has recently succeeded Wole Soyinka as president of the International Parliament of Writers.»