Author: | Christopher Meeks | ISBN: | 9781466002722 |
Publisher: | Christopher Meeks | Publication: | January 16, 2010 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Christopher Meeks |
ISBN: | 9781466002722 |
Publisher: | Christopher Meeks |
Publication: | January 16, 2010 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
In his fourth award-winning book, Christopher Meeks offers a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel. A young Minnesotan, Edward, is blessed with an abundance of "experience"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and groomed. He needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women.
Edward stumbles into romance in high school, careens through dorm life in college, whirls into a tornado of love problems as a mini-mart owner in a trailer park in Alabama, and aims for a film career in Los Angeles.
In nine chapters, the reader experiences Edward's life from ages 14 to 45. This novel follows Meeks's highly acclaimed collections of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons.
"A truly great novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving." --Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews
In his fourth award-winning book, Christopher Meeks offers a comic and compassionate coming-of-age novel. A young Minnesotan, Edward, is blessed with an abundance of "experience"--first when his mother dies and next when his father, an encyclopedia salesman, shoehorns Edward into a private boys school where he's tortured and groomed. He needs a place in the universe, but he wants an understanding of women.
Edward stumbles into romance in high school, careens through dorm life in college, whirls into a tornado of love problems as a mini-mart owner in a trailer park in Alabama, and aims for a film career in Los Angeles.
In nine chapters, the reader experiences Edward's life from ages 14 to 45. This novel follows Meeks's highly acclaimed collections of short stories, The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons.
"A truly great novel in the tradition of Charles Dickens and John Irving." --Marc Schuster, Small Press Reviews