Goats - Softcover

Poirier, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747553610 ISBN 13: 9780747553618

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

Ellis is fourteen. His parents have split up - Mom's gone New Age in Tucson with some asshole abstract artist; and Dad - Fucker Frank, is sporting nerdy glasses and retailing Mexican knick-knacks to Washington wannabes. Ellis is about to start at a squaresville boarding-school. It's your standard dysfunctional family thing. Except that Ellis has been hitting the bong since he was eleven, has a goat-man for a guru, and a weed-wisdom beyond his years. "Goats" is an extra-mellow coming-of-age tale - quirky, touching and very funny. It's about growing up and getting your shit together.

About this title

Review:

'A sly and wonderful novel ... Poirier fights deliberately shy of delivering a familiar coming-of-age story. Instead, Ellis and Goat Man's journey turns out to be as comically tricky as every other subtly sketched event and relationship' The Times 'Poirier is as on the ball as Salinger, as clued in as Hunter S. Thompson, and acutely tuned to right her, right now' Scotsman

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Reviews
'A sly and wonderful novel' THE TIMES

'Mark Poirier is one of the most kinetic, original, young fiction writers we've read in a long time' ESQUIRE

'Poirier fights deliberatly shy of delivering a familiar coming-of-age story. Instead, Ellis and Goat Man's journey turns out to be as comically tricky as every other subtly sketched event and relationship' THE TIMES

'Poirier is as on the ball as Salinger, as clued in as Hunter S. Thompson, and acutely tuned to right here, right now'

SCOTSMAN

'A clear-eyed story of friendship, loyalty and slowly polluted innocence' FACE

'Irresistable... subverts typical coming-of-age themes with an absurd humour and drop-dead stoner cool' i-D

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0747553610
• ISBN 13: 9780747553618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288