The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti
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Book Summary Information
Author: Hannah TintiEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 0385337450
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: The Dial Press
Book Reviews of The Good Thief
Book Review: A thief, yes, but one you can't help but follow
Summary: 4 Stars
Hannah Tinti puts on the table the fast-paced and exciting story of Ren, an orphan who thirsts for a family and adventure. Ren is much like the classic Buster Keaton movie character: a decent, intelligent person doing his best to stay alive and find meaning in one scampish adventure after another. Ren's empathy for those who surround him--the good, the odd, and the evil--has you rooting for him with each turn of the page. Finish The Good Thief in one reading or draw from it a bite at a time, as you would from a box of good chocolates.
Summary of The Good Thief
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony?s Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world.
But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren?s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? Journeying through a New England of whaling towns and meadowed farmlands, Ren is introduced to a vibrant world of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves. If he stays, Ren becomes one of them. If he goes, he?s lost once again. As Ren begins to find clues to his hidden parentage he comes to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well.
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