- Alcoholism, Alcoholism in fiction, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house
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Grave, earnest, spare and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Cormier
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Peter Smith Pub Inc, Delacorte Press, Laurel-Leaf Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385305013
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“They entered the house at 9:02 p.m. on the evening of April Fools' Day.”
Robert Edmund Cormier was an American writer and journalist, known for his deeply pessimistic novels, many of which were written for young adults. Recurring themes include abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal, and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win. Cormier's more popular works include *I Am the Cheese*, *After the First Death*, *We All Fall Down*, and *The Chocolate War*, all of which have won awards. *The Chocolate War* has been challenged in multiple libraries.
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