Vision Quest - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055314815X ISBN 13: 9780553148152

Synopsis

Louden Swain is on top of the world.  The funny, gutsy high school senior is a champion wrestler in training for a crucial state tournament.  He has the support of his beautiful, worldly girlfriend, Carla, and his teammate Kuch, who is on a spiritual journey.  Louden is living life to the fullest, and celebrating in it.  This honest and exuberant novel is full of engaging characters who revel in the high sprits and passions of growing up.

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Review

"Honest and funny and altogether true to life...about people so thoroughly decent and attractive that one wants to reach out and embrace them all."--Jonathan Yardley, Sports Illustrated

"Vision Quest is the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye and it's a better novel about wrestling and wrestlers than The World According to Garp."--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp

Vision Quest is the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye and it's a better novel about wrestling and wrestlers than The World According to Garp."--John Irving, author of The World According to Garp"

About the Author

Terry Davis is an American novelist who lives near Spokane, Washington, and is a professor emeritus of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato (MSU Mankato), where he taught creative writing--fiction and screenwriting--as well as adolescent literature. Davis, who has been a high school English teacher and a wrestling coach, is the author of three novels for young adults: Vision Quest, Mysterious Ways, and If Rock and Roll Were a Machine. He has also written Presenting Chris Crutcher, a biography of the respected young-adult author.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055314815X
• ISBN 13: 9780553148152
• Binding: Paperback