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published
October 1977
by Harpercollins
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Library Binding, 154 pages
isbn
0060268441
(isbn13: 9780060268442)
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Sixteen-year-old misfit Chris Boyd moves with his mother, a practical nurse, from one live-in job to another. Lloyd Dipardi, himself a misfit, p...more
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I'm re-reading all my tattered Paul Zindel YA paperbacks, starting with this one. Man, they are dark. Paul Zindel was my favorite writer as a young tween. He wrote about weird, ugly, awkward, fucked-up, lonely working class kids in bad situations, with lots of gritty detail. This is the saddest of them all: a misfit teenage boy and his widowed live-in nurse mom move in with her patient, a dying old lady with dementia and a lewd streak and her adult son prone to sadistic mind games, violent alco...more
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Read in January, 1984
Paul Zindel wrote a handful of young adult books in the late 60's and up to the early 80's that were constant companions during my teenage years. I still pick one up now and then. This one is tied for favorite with "Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball".
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Really kind of brutal and totally my kind of young adult novel.
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