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The Lucky Boy
by
Caroline Gerardo (Goodreads Author)
Transgressional Literary Fiction. A bildungsroman gone bad. A dark coming of age story. An adventure across America in the 1960's.
Seth McGrath goes through hell to raise ten grand to find a girl. Would you do this to find true love?
This young man is the son of an icy neurosurgeon and a pill popping debutante who send him away to be raised by his Grandmother. Seth will sel...more
Seth McGrath goes through hell to raise ten grand to find a girl. Would you do this to find true love?
This young man is the son of an icy neurosurgeon and a pill popping debutante who send him away to be raised by his Grandmother. Seth will sel...more
Paperback, 344 pages
Published
December 28th 2011
by Mustard Seed Press
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What would you be willing to do to accomplish your dream?
Would you lie? cheat? steal? arrange illegal fights with homeless people for hire? sell drugs? hitchhike across country? kill?
The Lucky Boy released December 28, 2011.
Written in a 21st Century Style that has been called "a hypnotic tale of teenage dissillusionment."
The novel is a bildungsroman written in beats. A coming of age story that will have you reading with your eyes wide open.
Contemporary Fiction, Transgressive, Transgressional Fic...more
Would you lie? cheat? steal? arrange illegal fights with homeless people for hire? sell drugs? hitchhike across country? kill?
The Lucky Boy released December 28, 2011.
Written in a 21st Century Style that has been called "a hypnotic tale of teenage dissillusionment."
The novel is a bildungsroman written in beats. A coming of age story that will have you reading with your eyes wide open.
Contemporary Fiction, Transgressive, Transgressional Fic...more
A growing up journey by hard knocks.
This boy is not lucky, he is born to cruel parents. They discard him like junk. He chooses the wrong path. He is good at sports though he's short. He's good at school probably because he likes to read, but he cheats. He chooses stealing, drug dealing and setting up illegal fights rather than the swim team. Then he runs away. Gosh could he do more bad stuff?
You think something supernatural is going to come about.
Then something, I can't spoil it, turns him aro...more
This boy is not lucky, he is born to cruel parents. They discard him like junk. He chooses the wrong path. He is good at sports though he's short. He's good at school probably because he likes to read, but he cheats. He chooses stealing, drug dealing and setting up illegal fights rather than the swim team. Then he runs away. Gosh could he do more bad stuff?
You think something supernatural is going to come about.
Then something, I can't spoil it, turns him aro...more
The Lucky Boy is Seth and the novel covers his youth during the 1960s, his adolesence into the 1970s. He is far from lucky, a misfit born to sociopathically indifferent and cruel parents. In his teens he becomes both a high school athlete and a juvenile delinquent knee-deep in suburban drug dealing and voyeuristic violence. During his only experience of a normal childhood he meets The Girl who becomes his lost dream object.
The rest is a road story about the trail of crimes, dangerous encounters...more
The rest is a road story about the trail of crimes, dangerous encounters...more
transgressive poetry, with a terrible fortunate kid, dark, wierd
Transgressional fiction with a new writing style.
When the line, "A real tear climbs up Seth's throat," appeared, I had to stop.
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Caroline Gerardo (AKA C. G. Barbeau)
lives in California and Wyoming with her children. Caroline's current release The Lucky Boy is out in paperback and all ereaders now.
Short stories, transgressional fiction, poetry
Caroline's poetry and short fiction published in 2012: Midwestern Gothic Review, One Stop Poetry,
2011 in: Sleet Magazine, Scapegoat Review, Narrative Magazine, Negativesucks Magazine,...more
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lives in California and Wyoming with her children. Caroline's current release The Lucky Boy is out in paperback and all ereaders now.
Short stories, transgressional fiction, poetry
Caroline's poetry and short fiction published in 2012: Midwestern Gothic Review, One Stop Poetry,
2011 in: Sleet Magazine, Scapegoat Review, Narrative Magazine, Negativesucks Magazine,...more
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