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Idiot Boys: a memoir
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In telling the story of his own accidental “coming of age,” English professor Bradley Butterfield tells the stories of a whole cast of lovable, if fallible, characters from his childhood and of the Denver he grew up in from the dawn of disco to the Reagan era. IDIOT BOYS is a relentlessly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and ultimately philosophical look at the particular idioc
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Paperback, 300 pages
Published
October 20th 2015
by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Sit down, buckle in and brace yourself for a roller coaster ride of glorious young male idiocy, Butterfield's chronicles of his youthful antics are more than a collection of empty Jackass episodes; his clear, no-nonsense writing is a nostalgic and thoughtful exploration of how many young males in the West have to survive their chaotic youth in order to understand their adult selves. What really makes Idiot Boys a joy ride, however, is Butterfield'd penetrating sense of the absurd coupled with hi
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This is a great book by a fantastic storyteller. I seriously want to read more and hope he publishes many more. I took three amazing comp lit classes from him at the University of Oregon and he always had great stories he shared. I told a friend I would let her read after me and I bought another copy so she could keep one as well.
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Bradley Butterfield is a happily married father of two little girls, and an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he teaches a wide variety of courses on Western literature and philosophy from the Enlightenment to the present. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon and an MA in European Studies from the Claremont Graduate School, and has
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