Brewster
Mark Slouka,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Mark Slouka,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393239751 (0393239756)
Publish date: August 5th 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Family,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Sports And Games,
Sports
Late 60's, in a small town called Brewster in New York, three boys and a young girl come of age. Charles Manson was in the news, being drafted for the Vietnam War was a real threat and Woodstock was happening a short distance away, these were circumstances happening outside their homes, but the rea...
If this novel does not win at least one major literary award, then the entire notion of writing prizes is meaningless.
It’s really hard, I think, to write a book where it feels like almost nothing significant is happening and yet the reader does not want to stop turning to pages. Mark Slouka’s pulled that off with Brewster, a slow burning book about sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher growing up in late 60s upstate New York...
It’s really hard, I think, to write a book where it feels like almost nothing significant is happening and yet the reader does not want to stop turning to pages. Mark Slouka’s pulled that off with Brewster, a slow burning book about sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher growing up in late 60s upstate New York...
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