| Two Guys from Verona: A Novel of Suburbia Contributor(s): Kaplan, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802136230 ISBN-13: 9780802136237 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1999 Annotation: Tides change for two male friends when they meet at their 25th high school reunion to discover one is facing death and the other one is experiencing life for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Friendship - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.03" W x 9.01" (1.02 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - New Jersey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Highly acclaimed on its publication and selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year, Two Guys from Verona is a rare breed of novel, striking a powerful chord across the nation and making James Kaplan the unexpected voice of a generation. It's the fall of 1999 in the plush New Jersey suburbs, and Will and Joel are fortyish, friends since the second grade. Will is a successful, tired cardboard salesman with a mortgage, a pretty wife, and 2.2 kids. Joel lives with his moth and works at a sub shop. Joel's favorite pastime is cruising the dark streets in his rusted-out '74 Chevy, drinking whiskey from a brown paper bag. Will feels sorry for Joel. And Joel feels sorry for Will. But their twenty-fifth high school reunion will change both their lives in ways neither has dreamed of - one facing death, the other facing life for the first time. A bittersweet elegy for what, not too long ago, looked like a spanking new American version of the promised land. - The New York Times Book Review |