Farrar Strauss Giroux
2011
341p.
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Some of this was laugh-aloud funny. Nice boy. Family - why do the adult s all seem so immature? Wonder how much is autobiographical. Some of it – the murders, the Hells Angels are a little over the top to be believable.
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