The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To: A Novel - Brossura

Pierson, DC

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ISBN 10: 0307474615 ISBN 13: 9780307474612

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010

Riassunto

Forging an instant friendship based on a shared love for drawing and their bottom-rung social status, high school teens Darren and Eric ambitiously create a graphic novel series that is shaped by Eric's increasingly hallucinatory sleeplessness. A first novel. Original.

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Recensione:

“Funny as hell. . . . The ribald humor of a Judd Apatow movie married to a science-fiction-fantasy spectacle.”—Kirkus
 
“A witty coming-of-age novel. . . . In Darren and Eric, Pierson has created two engaging and memorable co-conspirators and co-protagonists.”—Booklist
 
"Charmingly honest and honestly funny. Nails what it's like to be a geeky teenage male, right down to the Agtranian Berserkers." —Max Barry, author of Company

"In a smart, funny and endlessly imaginative debut, the voluminously talented DC Pierson shows keen insight into the rocky emotional terrain of adolescence and the nuances of geek culture. Pierson has a sharp eye for the way teenagers think, talk and behave. The scope and depth of the novel's ambition don't become apparent until a riveting final third that radically reinvents the narrative as a sly, Unbreakable-style exercise in genre deconstruction. Pierson has written a trenchant, briskly readable and ultimately sad novel about the greatest, most fantastical and mind-bending adventure of all: growing up."—Nathan Rabin, Head Writer, The A.V. Club, author, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought To You By Pop Culture

"Awesome stuff: great jokes, shocking twists, cyborgs. There's even some sex. It's fast-paced and funny and you should definitely check it out."--Simon Rich, author of Free-Range Chickens

L'autore:

DC Pierson was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ. He graduated from NYU's Dramatic Writing Department in 2007 with a degree in writing for television. His comedy group DERRICK made a feature film called "Mystery Team." He publishes short stories and unsolicited opinions on his website, dcpierson.com. This is his first novel.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307474615
• ISBN 13: 9780307474612
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240