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Zusatztext "Rarely will you read something so lovingly vulgar! so fiercely warmhearted! and so exuberantly expansive . . . the culmination comes off like a teenage One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ." - Booklist ! starred review "His narration is so easy and engaging! so sweet and funny! so astonishingly truthful that teens will rip through these 500-plus pages and want more." - School Library Journal ! starred review "Darkly comic . . . as troubled! relevant! relatable and hilarious as J.D. Salinger." - Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor This is the acclaimed novelist John Barnes 's first book for teenagers. Klappentext "The Catcher in the Rye meets On the Road"*-The Printz Honor book is a classic in the making! September 1973: The beginning of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of "the Madman Underground"- kids forced to attend group therapy during school. Karl has decided that he is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act-and be-Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has two after-school jobs, one dead father, one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty, uncensored rollercoaster ride, narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker. * The Horn Book Zusammenfassung "The Catcher in the Rye meets On the Road"*-The Printz Honor book is a classic in the making! September 1973: The beginning of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg! Ohio. For years! Karl's been part of "the Madman Underground"- kids forced to attend group therapy during school. Karl has decided that he is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act-and be-Normal. But Normal! of course! is relative. Karl has two after-school jobs! one dead father! one seriously unhinged drunk mother . . . and a huge attitude. Welcome to a gritty! uncensored rollercoaster ride! narrated by the singular Karl Shoemaker. * The Horn Book ...
