false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183294016m/1398270.jpg 1398270 3 <div>Calvin Becker is back in a timeless story about the volcanic sexual curiosity of a fourteen-year-old boy born into a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced (and has to hide his five copies of Mad magazine in the attic). It is 1966, and Ralph and Elsa Becker, Reformed Presbyterian missionaries from Kansas, are stationed in Switzerland, and on a modest ski vacation with their three children: tyrannical eighteen-year-old Janet, angelic Rachael, and our narrator, the irrepressible Calvin, who puzzles over his sisters&#8217; bras, as they hang on a line hidden away &#8220;so that I could not get a good look unless I ducked under the sheets ... to the feminine heart of the laundry maze.&#8221; But at the Hotel Riffelberg, high above Zermatt, Calvin falls into the hands of a waitress who, while bringing him his breakfast each morning, serially initiates him into ecstasies he can barely comprehend. The resulting family crisis triggers a larger crisis of faith in his fundamentalist father, leading to a climax, which rips Calvin out of his childhood. With echoes of Irving and Roth and its own uniquely human voice, Zermatt is a coming-of-age gem.</div> 408193 2003 Zermatt: A Novel (Calvin Becker Trilogy) total:34|5:7|4:6|3:12|2:6|1:3| 34 110 51 8 1398270 0786714603 9780786714605 30 7 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183294016m/1398270.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1398270.Zermatt_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 06:45:05 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 06:53:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1398270 0786714603 9780786714605 30 7 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183294016m/1398270.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1398270.Zermatt_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 09:53:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 10:00:26 -0700 2009 ...]]> 1398270 0786714603 9780786714605 30 7 3.24 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183294016m/1398270.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1398270.Zermatt_A_Novel 2 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 17:37:59 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 17:37:59 -0800 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