- Teenage boys, Stepfamilies, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age
Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu.
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Contemporary, classical in form, resolved and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jonathan Evison
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 340
- Publisher
- Soft Skull Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West., Distributed by Publishers Group West
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781593762087
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