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Brock Clarke

Arrow

The Ordinary White Boy

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Harcourt,Inc.

Endearing, infuriating, and utterly irresistible, Lamar Kerry is a twenty-seven-year-old Ordinary White Boy. He wears khaki pants, work boots, and flannel shirts; dances like Mick Jagger when he dances at all (only when drunk); and when in doubt, he reaches for a beer. His father sent him to college expecting him to become extraordinary, but Lamar returned home a bright, cocky, over-educated, middle-class boy adrift in a depressed, comatose, working-class town. Now the town's only Hispanic is missing and feared dead, Lamar's mother is enfeebled by MS, and both his girlfriend and his father are tired of being disappointed in him. Can Lamar turn himself into a professor of "racist remediation" and save the soul of his town? Can he stop hiding out in his ordinariness and do what is right by his father, his mother, his girlfriend, and himself? Can this ordinary white boy finally become a man? With a character both unforgettably unique yet universal, in a voice both tender and biting, Clarke mixes subtle social criticism with laugh-out-loud funny observations and introduces to literature the ordinary white boy in all of us.

Humor & Satire

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

Perfect in library edition, 9 unabridged CDs. The hero of this novel has come to the end of a long journey and for the second time in his life he has the time to think about all the things that have and have not come to pass. In Sam's life he spent 10 years in prison for burining down poet Emily Dickinson's house, killing two people. At 28 he tried to start a new life. He went to college, fell in love, got married and had two children. Then his past caught up with him. A great listen. ...more and more famous New England writers' homes are torched.

Literary

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Exley (Unabridged)

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An Arsonist's Writers' Homes in New England

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