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"This eighties-centric, Ritalin-fueled, comic novel by a writer to watch brings energy and originality to the classic Midwestern coming-of-age story."--BOOK JACKET.
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Classical in form, spare, character-led and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Walter Kirn
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, Broadway Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613495295
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First sentence
“It was the one thing I'd always done.”
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