The Borrower

by Rebecca Makkai

Book Overview

The first novel from the acclaimed author of The Great Believers

"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." --Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls

Lucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. Ian needs Lucy's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143120956
• ISBN13: 9780143120957
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher