Whompyjawed
- List Price: $15.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish date: 12/01/2008
Description:
Football is Willy Keeler's ticket out of West Texas, but only if he can keep his intellect, hormones, and adolescent rage from destroying his high school career. Between his girlfriend Hanna, who won't quite have sex with him; her father, the high school principal; his lonely mother; and Coach Bud, who may need Willy more than Willy needs him, Willy has his work cut out for him. A brief, depressing sexual encounter with a classmate, an infatuation with one of his mother's friends, and his mixed feelings about leaving his backwater hometown further complicate Willy's attempts to make sense of himself and plan for the future.
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Reminiscent of such classic works as The Last Picture Show, Catcher in the Rye, and, in its evocation of America's obsession with football, A Fan's Note, Whompyjawed introduces a writer whose distinctive voice, knowing perspective, and off-beat sense of humor capture a time and place with striking originality.
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