OLDER FICTION
(4) YA In the 1919 Melbourne, Australia, slums, fleet-footed fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan is hired to run errands for a notorious mobster. When a friend gets hurt, Charlie quits to enter a prestigious one-mile race. This promising first novel features a strong, distinct voice, a vivid setting, and almost too much incident. The gritty, absorbing realism devolves into over-the-top sentiment by the end. Glos.

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