excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature

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Author: Askold Melnyczuk ISBN: 9780997024821
Publisher: PFP Publishing Publication: April 16, 2016
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Askold Melnyczuk
ISBN: 9780997024821
Publisher: PFP Publishing
Publication: April 16, 2016
Imprint:
Language: English

Why is everyone angry with Jonathan? Suspended from school a week before Memorial Day, the savvy and cyber-sexed fifteen-year old is charged by his poet-father to write a history of literature in the age of Twitter. Jonathan absconds to Manhattan to care for his high-living godfather, who recently had a stroke, but the siren song of the city keeps him distracted. When he meets the worldly Beatriz, his life threatens to take a sharp turn. Speaking directly to the obsessions of our present, Smedley's Secret Guide reminds us that no one knows how anything will turn out until it happens. As someone once said, our great and glorious m

"In Melnyczuk's wonderful new novel, Jonathan Wainwright immediately charms the reader with his brilliant literary observations and insights, but what really steals the heart is that it comes on a wave of adolescent angst we all recognize—hormones and family problems and pop culture fuel this difficult journey while great and sometimes forgotten literary voices educate and shine light on his young and vulnerable heart. At one point he muses: the things they don't teach you in school would fill a book. And so they do: this book."

—  Jill McCorkle

"In this enchanting, very funny journey, Melnyczuk brings his extraordinary writing skills and his  visionary understanding of human nature to bear on a story which is as hilarious as it is high-spirited. In the tradition of  Stephen Dedalus, Holden Caulfield and Harry Potter, this story is a beguiling demonstration of what rebellion can achieve. Read it!" — Susan Cheever

asterpiece is to live appropriately.

 

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Why is everyone angry with Jonathan? Suspended from school a week before Memorial Day, the savvy and cyber-sexed fifteen-year old is charged by his poet-father to write a history of literature in the age of Twitter. Jonathan absconds to Manhattan to care for his high-living godfather, who recently had a stroke, but the siren song of the city keeps him distracted. When he meets the worldly Beatriz, his life threatens to take a sharp turn. Speaking directly to the obsessions of our present, Smedley's Secret Guide reminds us that no one knows how anything will turn out until it happens. As someone once said, our great and glorious m

"In Melnyczuk's wonderful new novel, Jonathan Wainwright immediately charms the reader with his brilliant literary observations and insights, but what really steals the heart is that it comes on a wave of adolescent angst we all recognize—hormones and family problems and pop culture fuel this difficult journey while great and sometimes forgotten literary voices educate and shine light on his young and vulnerable heart. At one point he muses: the things they don't teach you in school would fill a book. And so they do: this book."

—  Jill McCorkle

"In this enchanting, very funny journey, Melnyczuk brings his extraordinary writing skills and his  visionary understanding of human nature to bear on a story which is as hilarious as it is high-spirited. In the tradition of  Stephen Dedalus, Holden Caulfield and Harry Potter, this story is a beguiling demonstration of what rebellion can achieve. Read it!" — Susan Cheever

asterpiece is to live appropriately.

 

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