Rule of the Bone
Subtitle: n/a
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: May 31, 1995
Place of publication: USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780060172756
Description: Chappie, the precociously wise narrator of Rule of the Bone, is a punked-out teenager living in an upstate New York trailer park with his mother and abusive stepfather. Almost accidentally he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he drifts through crash pads, doper squats, and malls.

With his best friend, Russ, he gets a crossed-bone tattoo on his arm and takes the name "Bone," inventing and claiming for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider.