The Charlatan's Boy
Author:
Jonathan Rogers 
Complete Authored Works
Publication:
2010 by Waterbrook Press
Genre:
Adventure, Fiction, Humor
Pages:
305
Current state:
This book has been evaluated and information added. It has not been read and content considerations may not be complete.
Book Guide
Search for this book used on:
As far back as he can remember, the orphan Grady has tramped from village to village with a huckster named Floyd, pulling a variety of hoaxes and flimflams on the good citizens of the Corenwald frontier. It's a hard way to make a living, made harder by the memory of fatter times when audiences thronged to see Grady perform as "The Wild Man of the Feechiefen Swamp." But what can they do? No one believes in feechies anymore.
Unless Floyd and Grady can make them believe.
Armed with the tricks of their trade, the charlatan and his boy set out to create another Great Feechie Scare, which Floyd swears will make them rich. But while Grady longs for the days when he played the feechie, he can't stop wondering if, after a life of lies, he'll ever know who he really is.
From the back of the book
To view an example page please sign in.
Jonathan Rogers
AmericanThe figure cut by Jonathan Rogers is one that you might mistake for a run-of-the-mill college professor (you can almost hear the tweed jacket with e... See more
To view companion books please sign in.
To view companion books please sign in.
To view companion books please sign in.
Reviews
The Charlatan's Boy
Grady has spent his life traveling the Corenwald frontier...
The Charlatan's Boy
Reviewed by Andrew Peterson
When I wrote a blurb for The Charlatan’s Boy I described it as the kind of story Mark Twain might have written if he had been a Christian, or the kind C.S. Lewis might have written had he grown up in the American South... (the "blurb" is not included in the review, but added here for reference: "Jonathan Rogers has created a new kind of story—part fantasy, part southern fiction. It’s sad and funny and heartwarming. Imagine a southern version of a C. S. Lewis story or a Christian version of a Mark Twain tale. Imagine a world where dragons are alligators, the American South is an island kingdom of cowboys and swamp dwellers, and ugliness, it turns out, is profoundly beautiful. Jonathan Rogers, a Georgia boy with a PhD, a strong faith, and a healthy imagination, gives us a timeless story no one else could have written. I loved it.")
The Charlatan's Boy
Reviewed by Janie Cheaney
The 12-year-old hero The Charlatan’s Boy uses creative vocabulary and evocative swampy setting to walk the thin line between truth and lies....
Find This Book
Search for this book used on:
