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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Rule of the Bone Information
336 words, approx. 1 pages
 Rule Of The Bone is a 1995 novel by Russell Banks. It is a bildungsroman about the 14-year-old American narrator, Chappie, later dubbed Bone (named for a tattoo that he gets), who, after having dropped out of school, turns to the guidance of a... 
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 Publishers Weekly Rule of the Bone. (book reviews)
02/20/1995: 349 words, approx. 1 pages RULE OF THE BONE Russell Banks. HarperCollins, $22 (400p) ISBN 0-06-017275-4 A change in setting halfway through this ambitious novel by the respected author of Continental Drift and Affliction diminishes its effectiveness to a certain degree. The first half, a starkly... summary from source:
Military Medicine Postmenopausal Bone Density Referral Decision Rules: Correlation with Clinical Fractures
12/01/2004: 3,635 words, approx. 12 pages Objective: To test decision rules for bone mineral density (BMD) against fractures. Methods: We surveyed postmenopausal women in a military primary care clinic and tested three national clinical decision rules (Osteoporosis Risk Assessment Instrument; age, body size, no estrogen; weight) for correlation with fracture...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Robert Niemi
12,868 words, approx. 43 pages
In the following essay, Niemi provides a biographical overview of Banks's life and traces his literary development from his early short stories and poetry through Rule of the Bone.
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Critical Essay by Jerry Herron
3,062 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following excerpt, Herron compares the portrayals of American society in Rule of the Bone and Witold Rybczynski's City Life, commenting that both novels function as “mirrors” of contemporary social mores.
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Critical Review by Penelope Mesic
1,159 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Mesic lauds Banks's vivid and believable characterizations in Rule of the Bone.
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