ABOUT THE BOOK:

The setting is Boston, Fall 1969. Radical groups plot revolution, runaway kids prowl the streets, cops are at their wits end, and work is hard to get, even for hookers. Hobie McNutt, a seventeen year old runaway from West Virginia drifts into a commune of young revolutionaries. It’s a warm, dry place, and the girls are very available. But Hobie becomes involved in an increasingly vicious struggle for power in the group, and in the mounting violence of their political actions.

His father Hunter, who has been involved in a brave and dangerous campaign to unseat a corrupt union president in the coal miners union, leaves West Virginia to hunt for his runaway son. To make ends meet, he takes day-labor jobs in order to survive while searching for him.

Living parallel lives, their destinies ultimately movingly collide in this sprawling classic of radicalism across the generations, in the vein of Pete Hamill, Jimmy Breslin, and Richard Price.

Union Dues was nominated for a National Book Award as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

John Sayles is the screenwriter and director of Matewan; Lone Star; The Secret of Roan Inish; Eight Men Out; Return of the Secaucus Seven; Baby, It’s You; The Brother from Another Planet; Silver City; Sunshine State; and Passion Fish. The latter three screenplays have been published as Silver City and other Screenplays. Sayles has twice been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and has also written the short story collections Dillinger in Hollywood and The Anarchists’ Convention, and several novels, including Los Gusanos and Pride of the Bimbos.



RIGHTS INFORMATION:

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Language/Territory	Subagent
English outside North America	David Grossman Literary Agency
German	Paul & Peter Fritz AG Literatur Agentur
Greek	Read n' Right Agency
Hebrew	The Deborah Harris Agency
Italian	The Nabu International Literary Agency
Japanese	The English Agency (Japan) Ltd
Korean	Best Literary & Rights Agency
Portuguese	RIFF Agency
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Spanish in Latin America	International Editors' Co., S.A.
Spanish in Spain	International Editors' Co., S.A.
Turkish	Anatolialit Agency