- Schools, High schools, Fiction, Children's fiction
Set in the 1950s in Chicago, Robert Nifkin tells his highly unorthodox high school experiences in the form of a college application essay.
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Warm, cool, effortless and intimate.
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- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Manus Pinkwater
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Graphia, Rebound by Sagebrush, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374319694
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First sentence
“MY FATHER IS a son-of-a-bitch from Eastern Europe.”
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