Slouching towards Kalamazoo

by De Vries, Peter

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Title Statements

Full title :Slouching towards Kalamazoo / by Peter De Vries ; with a new afterword by Derek De Vries.

Summary

"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."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2005.
Edition:University of Chicago Press ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Illinois
Language:eng
Publication Date:2005.

The Physical Object

Description:246 pages ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0226143899, 9780226143897
oclc:ocm57652155
LC Classification:PS3507.E8673
Dewey Decimal:813/.52

Subjects

Bildungsromans Fathers and sons Fathers and sons -- Fiction Fiction Garçons adolescents -- Romans, nouvelle… Humorous fiction Pères et fils -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Satire Teenage boys Teenage boys -- Fiction