The ordinary white boy
1st ed.
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Word Count
64,250 words, Guess
Page Count
257 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveordinarywhiteboy00clar
- Internet Archiveordinarywhiteboy0000clar
- ISBN-100151008108
- ISBN-139780151008100
- Goodreads1045253
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001024184
- OCLC Control Number46422138
- OCLC Control Number1236451869
- Better World Books9780151008100
- Open LibraryOL3943305M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3603.L37 O7 2001
- LCCPS3603.L37O7 2001
and 1 more
- LCCPS3603.L37 O7 2001r
Description
"Endearing, infuriating, and utterly irresistible, Lamar Kerry, Jr., is a 27-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, overeducated, 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 father and his girlfriend are tired of being disappointed in him. Can Lamar turn himself into a professor of "racial 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?"--BOOK JACKET.
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- Fiction
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