About this title: "Kimmel reveals a Midwest that lies beyond the normal, small-town, apple pie, heartland caricatures . . . Sam Shepard, eat your heart out!"--"Elle."
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Free Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780743247771ISBN:0743247779
Description: Very Good. Paperback, Very Good, some light cover creasing, some light overall edge wear, All orders are shipped by kbooks every business day. read more
Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Highbridge Co, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781565118348ISBN:1565118340
Description: Good. NEW in the shrink wrap. Factory sealed. FIVE AUDIO CASSETTES. Just a bit of shelf wear to the box. A brand new edition! Unabridged. read more
Edition: NEW
Binding: Audio Book
Publisher: Highbridge Co, Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781565118348ISBN:1565118340
Description: Good. NEW NEW! FIVE AUDIO CASSETTES Factory Sealed. Five Brand New Audio Cassettes in the box published by Highbridg audio. Shrink wrapped. Brand new. Enjoy this UNABRIDGED performance. NEW. read more
"Ohhhh, painful. This book made me WAY too nervous to read. I'm not sure why, but I was squirming in my seat and couldn't read another page. I wanted to go back to the world of "solace of leaving early" but that just didn't happen here for me."
"Chick lit for tough girls. A rebellious girl from a broken home in rural Indiana grows into a pool shark who supports both her mother, who is paralyzed by the failure of her marriage and disappointment of her own life; and her emotionally fragile sister."
"This book is Kimmel's attempt at the standard coming-of-age-in-a-dysfunctional-family trope, but even here she twists it almost unrecognizably. It begins fairly typically but strays further & further from the mold as it goes along. Like The Solace of Leaving Early, which I admired, this book is set in rural central Indiana, but whereas that one focused on an intellectual elite, this one is about more stereotypical rural Hoosiers who live apparently meaningless lives in a trailer. (But, of course, Kimmel again gives this a twist as we gradually learn that the main character's--a teenaged pool shark--mother writes poetry & her sister studies classical mythology.) I didn't connect with this one as much as her other one."
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