Run
- ISBN-10
- 0857574280
- ISBN-13
- 9780857574282
- Series
- RUN
- Category
- Adopted children
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Author
- Ann Patchett
Description
The unforgiving New England weather has taken a turn for the worse on the day Doyle drags his reluctant sons to a speech by Jesse Jackson. Fired by Jackson's rhetoric, he is perplexed by the boys' indifference. Tiff and Teddy are adopted. Teddy - open, affectionate, the gentle dreamer - thinks he has found his calling in the Catholic church. Tip is more serious, reserving his own passionate interest for ichthyology ...
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