# Tender

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- Book: [Tender](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-childress/tender) ([Tender.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-childress/tender.md))
- Authors: [Mark Childress](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-childress)
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN: 978-03-4541-903-3
- Pages: 576
- Published: 1998-04-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

East Tupelo was a sprinkling of poor houses at the scratched-out back edge of Mississippi--and the birthplace of a boy who would become the greatest rock legend of his time. In Tender, novelist Mark Childress...