- Teenage boys, Fiction, Gay teenagers, Identity
In suburban New Jersey in the late 1970s, Robin MacKenzie enjoys a quiet, dutiful life with his parents, until a tragic accident destroys his family's normal middle-American dream and threatens to tear them apart, while Robin embarks on a rebellious odyssey of sexual self-discovery. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- K. M. Soehnlein
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 289
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Kensington, Kensington Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781575666617
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