| How All This Started Contributor(s): Fromm, Peter (Author), Fromm, Pete (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312276974 ISBN-13: 9780312276973 Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Beautifully written and well thought out, Fromm's debut novel captures the true strength in the bond between a brother and sister. With subtle humor and complete honesty, he portrays the heartbreaking reality of a family dealing with manic depression and a young boy's struggle to come to terms with his hero's failings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 000034696 |
| Lexile Measure: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.64" W x 8.18" (0.82 lbs) 324 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 58252 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The striking debut novel from award-winning writer Pete Fromm Abilene and Austin, a sister and brother frustrated with the small-town Texas life their parents have chosen, turn to each other to escape the story they're all too tired of hearing: their father's unvarying account of How All This Started-how he met their mother then settled down in the middle of nowhere. Pinning her dreams on her younger brother, Abilene becomes dead-set on making Austin a pitching star, a fireballer like Nolan Ryan. Swept up in her irresistible exuberance, they try, with baseball and firearms, to combat the stagnation of the Texas landscape--so fiercely it's uncertain whether either of them will survive Abilene's manic dreams. Introducing one of the most memorable female characters in contemporary literature, How All This Started portrays with strength and subtlety the visceral bond between a brother and sister. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fromm, Pete: - PETE FROMM is a five time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for his novels If Not For This, As Cool as I Am, and How All This Started, his story collection Dry Rain, and the memoir Indian Creek Chronicles. The film of As Cool as I Am was released in 2013. He is also the author of several other story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines. He is on the faculty of Oregon's Pacific University's Low-Residency MFA Program and lives in Montana. His second memoir The Names of the Stars: A Life in the Wilds was named an Honor Book in the 2016 Montana Book Awards.Fromm, Pete: - Pete Fromm is a three-time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award for his novel How All This Started, his story collection Dry Rain, and the memoir Indian Creek Chronicles. He lives with his family in Great Falls, Montana. |