Publication

2003 - University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin

Language

English

Word Count

55,500 words, Guess

Page Count

222 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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  • LibraryThing1941973

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3563.I444 F75 2003

Description

"Danny's bubble-like existence in paradisal Madison is broken when his father, a concert pianist and professor, is stricken with illness and must give up his professorship. The family is forced to move to Milwaukee to live at the brink of poverty while his father gets sicker, his artistic mother struggles as bread-winner, and his brother becomes delusional. Here, Danny finds himself in the uncertain position of having to accept the responsibilities of manhood while still struggling with adolescence.". "In a world that keeps shifting, Danny befriends the son of a gangster and, through his brushes with that compelling world of crime, finds his way to a new confidence."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

BoysFictionBoys -- Fiction.Fiction, generalWisconsin, fictionMadison (Wis.) -- Fiction.Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Fiction.

Genres

  • Fiction.

Series Statement

  • Library of American fiction

Other Editions

  • A friend of Kissinger: a novelUniversity of Wisconsin Press2003-01-01

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