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The ambidextrist / a novel by Peter Rock.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O327 A8 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rock, Peter, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drifters--Fiction.
- Drifters.
- Teenage boys--Fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Homeless persons--Fiction.
- Homeless persons.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Schuylkill River Valley (Pa.)--Fiction.
- Schuylkill River Valley (Pa.).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 283 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : MacAdam/Cage, [2004]
- Summary:
- This provocative novel follows Scott, a lonely drifter who earns money as a medical test subject and finds shelter in abandoned buildings on the riverfront. He first befriends Ray, a mysterious homeless man whose tenderness can't hide his unsavory tastes; next, he sets four adolescent boys on a series of increasingly dangerous dares. As these relationships develop and tangle, Scott gains insight into various lives and proves he can outlast any bad first impression. With gripping, restrained prose, The Ambidextrist finds beauty and compassion amid the gravel, dirt, and shadowed figures along Philadelphia's Schuylkill River.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Context Books, 2002.
- ISBN:
- 1931561869
- OCLC:
- 55801093
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