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Amazon Sales Rank: 3099
Publication Date: 2008-08-26
Release Date: 2008-08-26
Publisher: The Dial Press
ISBN: 0385337450
Type: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 336
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Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.
Twelve year-old Ren is missing his left hand. How it was lost is a mystery that Ren has been trying to solve for his entire life, as well as who his parents are, and why he was abandoned as an infant at Saint Anthony’s Orphanage for boys. He longs for a family to call his own and is terrified of the day he will be sent alone into the world.
But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren’s long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents persuades the monks at the orphanage to release the boy and to give Ren some hope. But is Benjamin really who he says he is? Journeying through a New England of whaling towns and meadowed farmlands, Ren is introduced to a vibrant world of hardscrabble adventure filled with outrageous scam artists, grave robbers, and petty thieves. If he stays, Ren becomes one of them. If he goes, he’s lost once again. As Ren begins to find clues to his hidden parentage he comes to suspect that Benjamin not only holds the key to his future, but to his past as well.
Average Rating: 
Review: 2008-11-15
Dubious Praise
I read the enthusiastic New York Times review of this book and was thrilled to get it at the library. What a walloping disappointment. The concept is great..somewhat picaresque which is always enticing but there was some confusion about the time frame and I was unclear who all the soldiers were who appeared intermittently. Somewhat boggled with a pretty weak ending and some of the writing made it difficult to create mental images of the vague time frame. Not quite as stellar as reviewed.
Review: 2008-11-05
IF ONLY I WERE 11 YEARS OLD AGAIN, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO PROPERLY ENJOY THIS TALE
Filled with close calls and death-defying escapes, Hannah Tinti's "The Good Thief" recalls the classic adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain -- but without Stevenson's vivid authenticity or Twain's satiric bite. At its best, "The Good Thief" is an homage to a meticulously plotted, lean-and-mean writing style that has gone out of vogue. At its worst, it seems like nothing more than a writing exercise or a twice-told tale amped up with lots of graphic violence for contemporary tastes. Younger readers will definitely get a kick out of this fast-paced story and its various twists and turns, which will be new to them. They'll love Tinti's well-imagined albeit generic world of sadistic henchmen, loveable grostesques and gothic settings. And they'll have fun imagining they're in the shoes of Ren, the young orphan of the title who embarks on a quest to find redemption. "He was never going to be respectable," Tinti writes of the rebellious and crafty thief. "And he was tired of trying to be good." Now if only I were 11 again, I could properly enjoy all this!
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