Kanes Ladder

Download or read book Kane's Ladder written by Carlos Alba and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Steve longs to be poor and neglected like his friend Wally, whose parents are incapable drunks. But unfashionably for Steve, he's saddled with a conventional, stable and middle-class family. Then, over the course of a year, his father has a fling with a barmaid and leaves home, his mother's response is to start a psychology degree, his sister is arrested for demanding money with menaces and his brother gets a girl pregnant.