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The Ordinary White Boy
by Clarke, Brock
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151008108
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008100
- Seller
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Tolar, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 2001. Boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Endearing, infuriating, and utterly irresistible, Lamar Kerry is a twenty-seven-year-old Ordinary White Boy. He wears khaki pants, work boots, and flannel shirts; dances like Mick Jagger when he dances at all (only when drunk); and when in doubt, he reaches for a beer. His father sent him to college expecting him to become extraordinary, but Lamar returned home a bright, cocky, over-educated, middle-class boy adrift in a depressed, comatose, working-class town. Now the town's only Hispanic is missing and feared dead, Lamar's mother is enfeebled by MS, and both his girlfriend and his father are tired of being disappointed in him. Can Lamar turn himself into a professor of "racist remediation" and save the soul of his town? Can he stop hiding out in his ordinariness and do what is right by his father, his mother, his girlfriend, and himself? Can this ordinary white boy finally become a man? With a character both unforgettably unique yet universal, in a voice both tender and biting, Clarke mixes subtle social criticism with laugh-out-loud funny observations and introduces to literature the ordinary white boy in all of us.
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- Bookseller
- Top Notch books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 215878
- Title
- The Ordinary White Boy
- Author
- Clarke, Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151008108
- ISBN 13
- 9780151008100
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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