Off to the Pond - Softcover

Romig, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578090678 ISBN 13: 9780578090672

Publisher: Scott Romig, 2011

A boy's life in an old and affluent city suburb. Private school and the local country club, pee wee hockey at the rink. Foxtrot lessons in a blazer and tie. A big stone house with a rope swing hanging from the apple tree and a black Labrador curled beside the boxwoods at the front door. But beneath this veneer of civility, something is stirring. Chris, now in middle school, has half the kids in his neighborhood--the children of lawyers and surgeons and investment fund managers--wearing trucker caps and flannel, listening to the Outlaws, spitting tobacco on the flagstone sidewalks of Chestnut Hill. Over time, however, the boyish antics of a whimsical and charismatic child become troublesome episodes of a difficult teenager and, later, an unsettled young adult. Episodes that bring a growing and hardening tension between Chris, the eldest son, and his father. That is, until things change.

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