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Cormier, Robert

The Rag and Bone Shop

156 pp. | Delacorte | October, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-385-72962-6 $$15.95
(4) YA In his final novel, Cormier makes readers privy to the secrets of a self-loathing police detective, Trent, and his suspect, twelve-year-old Jason. Readers know all along that Jason is innocent of murder; what suspense the book holds is provided by Trent's interrogation, designed not to reveal the truth but to make the boy confess. Events are told rather than shown; motivations are declared rather than developed.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2001

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