""I have been everywhere. Everywhere it is the same. All that really exists is the savage truth. Kill. Be killed. Live. Die. There''s nothing more."" So says Bluebeard, king of the streets, purof drugs, women, and pornography. This isn''t the world Eric imagined. At seventeen, he runs away to discover the wonders of the world-the wonders his storyteller father told him about throughhis childhood. But all Eric finds on the street in Riverton is gangs, junkies, sex, and ruined lives. He also stumbles onto a gift for acting ...
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""I have been everywhere. Everywhere it is the same. All that really exists is the savage truth. Kill. Be killed. Live. Die. There''s nothing more."" So says Bluebeard, king of the streets, purof drugs, women, and pornography. This isn''t the world Eric imagined. At seventeen, he runs away to discover the wonders of the world-the wonders his storyteller father told him about throughhis childhood. But all Eric finds on the street in Riverton is gangs, junkies, sex, and ruined lives. He also stumbles onto a gift for acting and discovers an imagined world might just be his ticket out of a broreal one-if he can say no to the devil. Brian Yansky expertly conjures a gritty and original portrait of life at street level, comwith cynical adults, doomed teens, a villain who isn''t quite human, and a brilbut unlikely hero.
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