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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

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    612-822-4611

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Boarded Windows

Boarded Windows

Hicks, Dylan

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HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 156689297X
ISBN13: 9781566892971
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Apr 24 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
Almost Famous meets Portnoy's Complaint: A record store clerk in search of his origins confronts his con-man father figure.

Wade Salem is a charismatic aesthete, drug dealer, and journeyman country musician. He's also a complicated father figure to this novel's narrator, whose cloudy childhood becomes both clearer and more confusing through Wade's stories, jokes, and lectures. Through the eyes of a keenly observant, underemployed record collector, Wade emerges as a sly, disruptive force, at once seductive and maddening.

Shifting between flashbacks from the seventies and nineties, Boarded Windows is a postmodern orphan story that explores the fallibility of memory and the weight of our social and cultural inheritance. Stylistically layered and searchingly lonesome, Dylan Hicks's debut novel captures the music and mood of the fading embers of America's boomer counterculture.

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