| Drive Like Hell Contributor(s): Hudgens, Dallas (Author) |
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ISBN: 074326181X ISBN-13: 9780743261814 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: Set in the 1979 outside Atlanta, this "thoroughly enjoyable" ("Publishers Weekly") debut tells the story of 16-year-old Luke Fulmer, who grows up in a difficult family with a stockcar-racing, absentee father, an alcoholic mother, and a delinquent brother. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - Black Humor |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 5.46" W x 7.92" (0.64 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Locality - Atlanta, Georgia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wanting desperately to be behind the wheel, Luke Fulmer counts down the days to his sixteenth birthday, when he can finally get his license. Unfortunately, the first thing he does with it is borrow his neighbor's car. When he is pulled over and found in possession of an air pistol, a ski mask, a stolen TV, and a bag of pot, the unforgiving local magistrate takes scissors to his license and vows to lock him up if he ever stands in front of her again. So with an absent father and a mother descending into alcoholism, he moves in with his older brother, Nick, an easygoing ex-con who wants to steer Luke onto the straight and narrow. In the summer that follows, Luke contends with a kleptomaniac girlfriend, a duffel bag full of cocaine, and the realization that he must save his family from themselves, even as he plots to beat a path out of town. In his hilarious, unforgettable debut -- with everything from stock car racing to drug dealing -- Dallas Hudgens brilliantly evokes Southern culture in a tale that is raucous and wrenching, funny and wise. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hudgens, Dallas: - Dallas Hudgens is a native of Georgia. He is the author of the novel Drive Like Hell and has contributed to The Washington Post and online at FANZINE (www.thefanzine.com). He lives in Virginia with his wife and two sons. For more information, visit www.drivelikehell.com |