SOURCE: A review of Nathan's Run, in Booklist, Vol. 92, No. 8, December 15, 1995, pp. 667-68.

[In the following review, Gaughan offers a mixed assessment of Nathan's Run, finding the characters shallow.]

Nathan Bailey's life is a Dickensian tragedy updated for the 1990s. At age 11, his father dies in a car accident, leaving him orphaned and at the mercy of abusive, alcoholic, ne'er-do-well Uncle Mark. To escape further beatings, Nathan steals Mark's car and is sentenced to a juvenile-detention center,