Rule of the Bone
by Russell Banks
Buy on AmazonI would maybe like to be Bone, from Russell Banks’s “Rule of the Bone,” but only for that briefest of idylls where he lives with I-Man and Froggy in the abandoned school bus. It’s a credit to Banks’s writing that this abandoned school bus remains one of the most credible depictions of a terrestrial heaven that I’ve encountered in a novel.
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"I would maybe like to be Bone, from Russell Banks’s “Rule of the Bone,” but only for that briefest of idylls where he lives with I-Man and Froggy in the abandoned school bus. It’s a credit to Banks’s writing that this abandoned school bus remains one of the most credible depictions of a terrestrial heaven that I’ve encountered in a novel."
By the Book: Karen Russell · nytimes.com