- Authorship, Coming of age, Fiction, High schools
SHAKESPEARE SHAPIRO HAS ALWAYS hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and comic.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Jake Wizner
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Random House Books for Young Readers, Random House Children's Books, Random House
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375890864
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