Me and a friend of mine, Alex, a guy I met in the reformatory, we just started knockin’ around after we got out. How did you get here? He just couldn’t seem to get over it. I thought for a minute and said, Five or six years. I tried barkeeping once and didn’t much like it. You could paint, write, barkeep, or bum around. Bumming around is a real popular profession here. You’re goin’ to be a teacher, huh? I said. People get excited over the weirdest things. I figured I had as much chance of being here as he did, even if we were a long way from where we’d seen each other last. I can’t believe it! I never thought I’d see you again. What are you doing here? he kept saying, looking at me like he couldn’t believe it. Then I remembered and got up, brushing sand off.
I said, Yeah? because I didn’t recognize him right off. I was sitting on the beach and he come up to me and said, Rusty-James? We hadn’t seen each other for a long time. “Hinton knows how to plunge us right into dead-end mentality-his inability to verbalize much of anything, to come to grips with his anger about his alcoholic father and the mother who deserted him, even his distance from his own feelings.”- Kirkus Reviews Read more The brothers are inseparable, and Motorcycle Boy will always be there to watch his back, so there's nothing to worry about, right? Or so Rusty-James believes, until his world falls apart and Motorcycle Boy isn't there to pick up the pieces.Īn edgy, emotional portrait of a troubled kid trying to navigate the chaotic world around him, Rumble Fish was made into a film by Francis Ford Coppola and has become a modern classic praised by School Library Journal as “stylistically superb” and beloved by multiple generations of readers. But Motorcycle Boy is also smart, so smart that Rusty-James relies on him to bail him out of trouble. Rusty-James wants to be just like his big brother Motorcycle Boy-tough enough to be respected by everyone in the neighborhood. From the author of The Outsiders: This novel about two brothers in a tough world “packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling” ( School Library Journal).Ī School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
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