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Crud Hall
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781495208287
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 17 2014
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The year is 1961, and college life is brimming with wild, new, and unexpected experiences-particularly for someone as introverted and painfully shy as Harvey, a good southern boy who has just embarked on his freshman year at Zebulon Kincaid State College.
But after a brutal fraternity hazing ritual leaves him humiliated, he winds up transferring to North Texas State University in Denton, living in a two-story rooming house known as Crud Hall, where he'll spend the next three years.
It is at this residence that Harvey meets the wonderfully weird cast of characters who become his closest college companions-a collection of personalities that includes Chinko the Chinese psych major, thirty-eight-year-old blind diabetic Caleb, and an effeminate aspiring poet named Wally, to name a few.
Crud Hall is the hilarious, tongue-in-cheek, partially autobiographical look at a group of boys and men trying to navigate their way through the experimental world of college in the early 1960s. Written with a special flair for strange and memorable details-from a main character's initiation at a Mexican brothel to a bodybuilder afraid of rabbits-this unique novel is a fresh look at an exciting time.
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