num_pages: 368
description: In a coming-of-age novel from the author of Naked Pueblo, fourteen-year-old Ellis departs from the Southwest to attend boarding school in the East, leaving behind his mother and the Goat Man, the surrogate father figure who has taught him the meaning of stability, commitment, and caretaking. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Goats
titlecomplete: Goats
genres: Fiction, American, Coming Of Age
ratings_count: 373
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Fiction (Finalist)
publisher: Miramax