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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill EisenstadtPublish date:2017-04-11Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316506335ISBN-10:316506338UPC:9780316506335Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Women, LiterarySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT0JEP41T
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway"-on scholarship to a rich-kid's college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. Brilliantly capturing the restlessness and casual nihilism of working-class youth with no options, Jill Eisenstadt's acclaimed first novel startles in its power and originality, its depth of feeling, its bright and dark comic turns.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316506335ISBN-10:316506338UPC:9780316506335Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Women, LiterarySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT0JEP41T
Jill Eisenstadt is the author of the novels From Rockaway and Kiss Out. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Boston Review, New York Magazine, and BOMB. She lives in Brooklyn.
Publisher: Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books

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