Into the Great Wide Open |
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| Author:
| Canty, Kevin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-385-47388-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Nan A. Talese |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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"Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality - and a capacity for caring - he...
More Description"Smart but scarred, Kenny Kolodny yearns to awake from the nightmare of his smashed-up family: his mother is in an institution and forever away; his father is an abusive alcoholic; his brother lives abroad. Seventeen and alone, he hangs on the periphery of his world, until he makes a passionate connection with the troubled, beautiful, fiercely independent Junie Williamson. Kenny discovers in their highly charged, intensely erotic relationship a reality - and a capacity for caring - he has not known before."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved