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On the Run with Dick and Jane.


On the Run with Dick and Jane

Robert Gover Robert Gover (born November 1929) grew up in an endowed orphanage (Girard College in Philadelphia), received a BA in economics from the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a journalist, became a best-selling novelist at age 30, lived most of his life in California, and now lives  

Hopewell Publications

PO Box 11, Titusville, NJ 08650-0011

1933435127 $15.95 www.hopepubs.com

The ninth novel of former journalist Robert Gover, On The Run With Dick and Jane is the story of a truly unlikely couple--Jane, a twelve-year-old stowaway girl fleeing an overseas sex slavery operation, and Dick, a sixty-three year-old man grieving grieving Mourning, see there  the death of his beloved wife and struggling with mounting medical bills. A distinctive feature of On the Run with Dick and Jane is that quotation marks quotation marks
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 are omitted from the spoken dialogue, lending the tale elements of a stream-of-consciousness feel. A story of a most unlikely friendship, eventually leading both to take a stand against those who would recapture recapture n. in income tax, the requirement that the taxpayer pay the amount of tax savings from past years due to accelerated depreciation or deferred capital gains upon sale of property. (See: income tax)


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 Jane for their own vile profit.
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