Roderick/Book Two
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This was originally published as Book Two of Roderick, and is also Book Two of the combined edition The Complete Roderick.
Summary
Allbright has sent Roderick to live with Hank and Indica Dinks, who mostly ignore him and leave him to learn about human behavior from TV. When the Dinks' marriage breaks up, Hank attacks Roderick, who defends himself and, thinking he has killed Hank, mails himself to the home of Ma and Pa Wood. These kindly eccentrics try to bring him up as their own child, and send him to school, where the teachers and administrators assume he is a child with unusual physical disabilities even though he has no human parts. During his "childhood" Roderick is kidnapped repeatedly, goes on the road with drifters and grifters, works as a carnival fortune-teller for the shady businessman Mr. Kratt, and is brought by joyriding fraternity members to an abstract art exhibit where Ben Franklin (who is now employed by Kratt) catches a glimpse of him.
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