Skipped Parts: A Novel: 1 (GroVont series, 1) - Softcover

Tim Sandlin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1402241712 ISBN 13: 9781402241710

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Banished to the hinterlands of Wyoming, rebellious Lydia Callahan and her thirteen-year-old son, Sam, have no choice but to cope. But while Lydia drinks and talks to the moose head on the wall, Sam finds a friend in local girl Maurey Pierce. One of the wildest, raunchiest, most heartfelt coming-of-age novels of the past thirty years, Skipped Parts puts Tim Sandlin in the upper echelon of contemporary comic novelists.

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Review:

'Funny, shocking, downright revolting and occasionally sad. Sandlin is a compelling storyteller ... Skipped Parts is somewhere between The Catcher in the Rye and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.' --Los Angeles Times Book Review

'Dazzling ... moving ... Sam's carapace is humor ... He thinks like Holden Caulfield and has Joseph Heller's take on dispair. His Walter Mitty-like fantasies are tiny comic gems ... In the end you'll find yourself rooting for Sam.' --New York Times Book Review

'A lighthearted, amusing and tender story of preteen wisdom, adult immaturity and the fine line between ... An offbeat, engaging novel.' --Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1402241712
• ISBN 13: 9781402241710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416