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Jilly Farina is fourteen, but so small that she wears younger kids' clothes. Her father is drunk on the day of the Barnstable County Fair, so she goes by herself, and by that night her life has been transformed.
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Contemporary, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Theroux
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 438
- Publisher
- Random House, Penguin, H. Hamilton
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140159776
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**Paul Edward Theroux** is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar (1975).
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