The Borrower REL006400 Early in August of 1930

Early in August of 1930

always considered himself more of a writer than a fighter

Published: 11/19/1989

but one who served at a time when the German military was tainted with the evils of Nazism

proportionally less for groups

The Borrower REL006400 Early in August of 1930The 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 help to smuggle books past his overbearing