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The Jesus Boy

Richard Laurence Gordon

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Description:"It's an ill-omened start, when seventeen-year-old Charles Grover gets caught by his father trying to murder his mother -- only to have her die independently the next day. What he encounters on his grim, unnecessary lam across Canada (a seedy old-age home, a yet more senescent pleasure hotel) only confirms the worst imaginings of a teenager with a bad attitude, much as the aborted murder clinched his opinion of himself. The signal thing about Charles, though it's never mentioned, is his lack of experience: even the little we see happening to him is so instantly sponged up into his dour preconceptions that the whole world seems infected with his apathy and lethargy. It takes a great trauma to lever the story into action. Yet catastrophe to Charles' true love comes as no more of a surprise than that he should have found her to begin with; and the ending, resolving Charles' tale with an even less plausible sub-plot, is an instance of fantasy pumped up to bursting -- imitation apotheosis -- just as the foregoing was a flat-tired impersonation of real life. Meant to be unpleasant -- succeeding past the author's wildest dreams."--KirkusWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jesus Boy. To get started finding The Jesus Boy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 296

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1975

ISBN: M77PAAAAMAAJ

Description: "It's an ill-omened start, when seventeen-year-old Charles Grover gets caught by his father trying to murder his mother -- only to have her die independently the next day. What he encounters on his grim, unnecessary lam across Canada (a seedy old-age home, a yet more senescent pleasure hotel) only confirms the worst imaginings of a teenager with a bad attitude, much as the aborted murder clinched his opinion of himself. The signal thing about Charles, though it's never mentioned, is his lack of experience: even the little we see happening to him is so instantly sponged up into his dour preconceptions that the whole world seems infected with his apathy and lethargy. It takes a great trauma to lever the story into action. Yet catastrophe to Charles' true love comes as no more of a surprise than that he should have found her to begin with; and the ending, resolving Charles' tale with an even less plausible sub-plot, is an instance of fantasy pumped up to bursting -- imitation apotheosis -- just as the foregoing was a flat-tired impersonation of real life. Meant to be unpleasant -- succeeding past the author's wildest dreams."--KirkusWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Jesus Boy. To get started finding The Jesus Boy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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