| Sad Stories of the Death of Kings Contributor(s): Gifford, Barry (Author), Christopher, Rob (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1583229485 ISBN-13: 9781583229484 Publisher: Triangle Square OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - General - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - General (see Also Headings Under Family) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2010035353 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Locality - Chicago, Illinois - Geographic Orientation - Illinois - Cultural Region - Midwest - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Roy is a lover of adventure movies, a budding writer, and a young man slowly coming of age without the benefit of a father. Surrounding him--whether to support him or to drag him under--is the adult world of postwar Chicago, a city haunted by violence, poverty, and the redeeming power of imagination. Here are charlatans, operators, alien abductees, schoolyard nudists, and fast girls with only months to live. At the center of it all is a boy learning to navigate the compromises, disillusionments and regrets that come with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and invention, the forty-one short stories in Barry Gifford's first book for young adults bring a city--and a boy's growing consciousness--to vivid, unflinching life. |