- Fiction, Humor (Fiction), Fiction, general
Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups.
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Classical in form, character-led, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Farrelly
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 205
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Broadway Books, Distributed by Little, Brown
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571207558
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