Boy Wanted

Ryan Christiansen's tale of a twelve-year-old who answers an ad saying, "Boy Wanted," takes the reader to the disturbed depths of the abandoned and vulnerable, those immobilized by the fear that their own behavior is what made a predator behave badly. When Alvi's father, a failed auctioneer in Red River, North Dakota, becomes tangled up in bootlegging and leaves town during the Great Depression, Alvi and his mother find themselves in dire straits. Hiring himself out for work, Alvi helps an old man build a ski jump along the river. Alvi learns about his Norwegian antecedents and ski jumps and the young girl, Rose, and other things less welcomed.

ISBN # 978-0-911042-83-2
Copyright 2015
Adult novel.
123 pages
Paperback.

$13.00
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Ryan Christiansen has worked in a variety of writing disciplines, including journalism, technical writing, and creative writing, and as a professor of English, he has taught a variety of English composition, editing, and creative writing courses at both two-year and four-year universities. His short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Red Weather, San Antonio Current, Big City Lit, RELEVANT, and Minnesota Technolog, as well as in the anthology code (poems} and in a chapbook titled Wolverton Road. As the artist-in-residence at Fort Stevenson State Park, North Dakota, in 2011, for the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department and the North Dakota Council on the Arts, he wrote a collection of short-short stories titled The Guard House and Other Stories. This flash novel, Boy Wanted, is his first. 

 

ISBN: 978-0-911042-83-2

Page Count: 123

Paperback

Publication Year: 2015

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