Into the Great Wide Open - Rilegato

Canty, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0385473885 ISBN 13: 9780385473880

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1996

Riassunto

Smoking marijuana and cutting up in school to avoid the pain associated with his dysfunctional family, Kenny finds his life transformed by his affair with Junie, a young girl who is battling her own demons. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kevin Canty teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana.

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the success of <i>A Stranger in This World</i>, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and hollow lives, Into the Great Wide Open is the story of two young people fleeing their families' emotional abandonment to find refuge in each other.<br><br>Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality--and a capacity for caring--he has not known before.<br><br>In prose startling for its diamond-hard edg

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0385473885
• ISBN 13: 9780385473880
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile