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  <name><![CDATA[Kyle Beachy]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&quot;With &lt;i&gt;The Slide&lt;/i&gt; Kyle Beachy turns the coming-of-age story on its ear. But &lt;i&gt;The Slide&lt;/i&gt; is about a lot more than a young man's increasingly frantic efforts to figure himself out. There's the decay of both the American city and the American nuclear family, the painful inevitability of friends and lovers growing apart, and the ongoing difficulty of denying one's base appetites. Plus baseball. Lots of baseball. What's most impressive, though, is that Beachy has emerged in his debut as a fully-formed stylist. His writing is propulsive, unique without being forced, and eminently readable.&quot;
-- Ron Currie Jr., author of &lt;i&gt;Everything Matters!&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;God is Dead&lt;/i&gt;.


Kyle Beachy lives in Chicago. &lt;i&gt;The Slide&lt;/i&gt; is his first novel.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Ithaca, NY</hometown>  <born_at>08/19/1978</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Slide: A Novel]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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