Palo Alto
stories
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Word Count
49,250 words, Guess
Page Count
197 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9781439163146
- ISBN-101439163154
- ISBN-139781439163146
- ISBN-139781439163153
- ISBN-139781439175729
and 8 more
- ISBN-139781442339743
- ISBN-101439163146
- ISBN-101439175721
- ISBN-101442339748
- Library of Congress Control Number2010032932
- OCLC Control Number555639481
- Better World Books9781439175729
- Open LibraryOL24524529M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3606.R37523 P35 2010
- LCCPS3606.R37523P35
Description
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut of a surprising and powerful new literary voice. Written with an immediate sense of place--claustrophobic and ominous--James Franco's collection traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. In "Lockheed" a young woman's summer--spent working a dull internship--is suddenly upended by a spectacular incident of violence at a house party. In "American History" a high school freshman attempts to impress a girl during a classroom skit with a realistic portrayal of a slave owner—only to have his feigned bigotry avenged. In "I Could Kill Someone," a lonely teenager buys a gun with the aim of killing his high school tormentor, but begins to wonder about his bully's own inner life. These linked stories, stark, vivid, and disturbing, are a compelling portrait of lives on the rough fringes of youth.
Description
A fiercely vivid collection of stories about troubled California adolescents and misfits.
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Other Editions
- Palo Alto: stories
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