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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1986
The chief fault of this bizarre coming-of-age tale, winner of the 1985 Associated Writing Programs Novel Award, is the extreme precociousness of 16-year-old narrator/protagonist Louis, who makes Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield seem obtuse by comparison. Yet his perceptions often ring phony (as does much ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More