| Author/Contributor(s): | Barnes, John |
| Publisher: | Speak |
| Date: | 1/6/2011 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Darkly comic . . . as troubled, relevant, relatable and hilarious as J.D. Salinger.”—Los Angeles Times
“Rarely will you read something so lovingly vulgar, so fiercely warmhearted, and so exuberantly expansive.”—Booklist, starred review
If this book was a monologue . . . it would be ****ing censored.
Today is Wednesday, September 5, 1973. Welcome to the life of Karl Shoemaker, which includes:
• getting through his senior year of high school
• getting out of Lightsburg, Ohio, hole of the world
• trying to lose his virginity
• five jobs
• a dead father
• a seriously unhinged drunk mother
• a house that is basically a litter box
• his membership in the Madman Underground (a group of kids forced, for no apparent reason, to attend group therapy during school hours)