Book Review

Rule of the Bone

EW's GRADE
B

Details Writer: Russell Banks; Genre: Fiction

Russell Banks' coming-of-age novel Rule of the Bone — written in the voice of a 14-year-old drug dealer in bleak upstate New York — wavers poignantly between innocence and sad sophistication. B

Originally posted May 03, 1996 Published in issue #325 May 03, 1996 Order article reprints
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