American youth : a novel / Philip LaMarche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LaMarche, Phil.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage boys--Fiction.

Teenage boys.

Firearms accidents.

Firearms accidents--Fiction.

New England--Fiction.

New England.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2007]

Summary:

In a small town, a fourteen-year-old boy is hanging out at home with some friends - two brothers. The two boys convince him to show them his father's gun. The gun goes off, and one of the brothers lies dead. His brother holds the gun. The boy's mother grabs him and asks what happened. When he tells her that he put the bullet in the gun, she replies, "You didn't load that gun. Understand?" And from that one moment of deceit, a series of events unfolds that forces hard choices and hard emotional times on the boy as he struggles with his guilt, the police, his growing infamy at school and his impulse to flee. Casting a piercing eye on the link between young male identity and violence, American Youth is destined to become a coming-of-age classic, centered on a young man caught in a crucible of social change and the storms of adolescence.

ISBN:

1400066050

9781400066056

OCLC:

70175014

Publisher Number:

9781400066056