Someone to Run With: A Novel

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 M02 1 - 352 pages

David Grossman's Someone to Run With tells the story of a lost dog, and the discovery of first love on the streets of Jerusalem, portrayed here with a gritty realism that is as fresh as it is compelling.

When awkward and painfully shy sixteen-year-old Assaf is asked to find the owner of a stray yellow lab, he begins a quest that will bring him into contact with street kids and criminals, and a talented young singer, Tamar, engaged on her own mission: to rescue a teenage drug addict.

A runaway bestseller in Israel, in the words of the Christian Science Monitor: "It's time for Americans to fall in love with (Grossman's) Someone to Run With."

 

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Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
8
Section 3
12
Section 4
60
Section 5
62
Section 6
65
Section 7
81
Section 8
87
Section 21
245
Section 22
258
Section 23
265
Section 24
271
Section 25
281
Section 26
287
Section 27
289
Section 28
292

Section 9
95
Section 10
102
Section 11
111
Section 12
121
Section 13
143
Section 14
173
Section 15
182
Section 16
205
Section 17
227
Section 18
234
Section 19
236
Section 20
243
Section 29
299
Section 30
308
Section 31
315
Section 32
323
Section 33
330
Section 34
335
Section 35
336
Section 36
337
Section 37
340
Section 38
341
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About the author (2005)

David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels, including A Horse Walks into a Bar, The Book of Intimate Grammar, as well as children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children.

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