- Fathers and sons, Fathers and sons in fiction, Fiction, Interpersonal relations
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
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Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Chris Crutcher
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, HarperTempest, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417681365
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“RE: Exclusive rights to an hour-long interview immediately prior to publication of the soon-to-be highly-sought-after memoirs of our country's future premier Ironman, Beauregard Brewster, in the year of his quest to conquer the field in Yukon Jack's Eastern Washington Invitational Scabland Triathlon.”
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