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William kowalski is the author of eddie s bastard 4. As this billy mann grows up, he slowly learns the history of the mann. Kowalski lacks irvings comic timing and fanciful imagination, but he has a sharp eye for the details of family life in rural america and a good. Its his first inside look at that taboo family, and he quickly learns two things.
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Kowalski writes in a style so natural that the reader is only aware of the story highly recommended. This first novel tells the story of two relationships. Though the book begins with an oldfashioned cliche, readers will be pleasantly surprised by the lively novel the first by author william kowalski that follows. Join audible and get eddies bastard free from the audible online audio book store. Buy a cheap copy of eddies bastard book by william kowalski. A note identifies the boy as the illegitimate child of mann s son, eddie, a soldier killed in vietnam. Two of the titles william wrote for the rapids reads series have been nominated for the ontario library associations golden oak. Eddies bastard 1999, somewhere south of here 2001, the adventures of flash jackson 2003, and the good neighbor 2004 were all published in the u. Kowalski, i have just finished reading your book eddies bastard and wanted to let you know how much i enjoyed it.
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