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Meely LaBauve: A Novel

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By Ken Wells
Publisher Thorndike Press
Meely LaBauve: A Novel
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Fifteenyearold Meely LaBauve is living by his wits on Louisianas Catahoula Bay. His father is an alligator hunter, still unable to cope with the death of his wife eight years earlier. He finds comfort in bottles of hooch and companionable women, disappearing for days at a time. But the law has it in for Meelys dad; and bully Junior Guidry, nephew of a rogue cop, considers badgering Meely his favorite sport. Not since Huck Finn rafted down the Mississippi has there been a comingofage story like this, told in such an utterly authentic, unlettered American voice.

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56530 words56,530 words
309 pages309 pages
Lexile 780LLexile 780L
Published 2001Published 2001

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Book ISBN:

9780786230235

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