Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Import)

DeVries, Peter

ISBN 10: 0140070702 / ISBN 13: 9780140070705

Edité par Penguin Books, 1984

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Synopsis :

Book by DeVries Peter

Présentation de l'éditeur: It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. A tutor is hired, and this "modern Hester Prynne" offers Anthony lessons that ultimately free him from eighth grade and situate her on the cusp of the American sexual revolution. Anthony's restless adolescent voice is perfectly suited to De Vries's blend of erudite wit and silliness—not to mention his fascination with both language and female anatomy—and it propels Slouching Towards Kalamazoo through theological debates and quandaries both dermatological and ethical, while soaring on the De Vriesian hallmark of scrambling conventional wisdom for comic effect.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Slouching Towards Kalamazoo (Import)
Éditeur : Penguin Books
Date d'édition : 1984
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Very Good