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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Flaming Adolescent

Flaming Adolescent

Peat, Dj
Peat, David

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1655022989
ISBN13: 9781655022982
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 4 2020
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A poignant, warm, heart-breaking and funny timely-snapshot of English working-class, small-town adolescence and the hidden internal and external world of 15 year old, John Watts.Never talk about David Watts; that was the unwritten rule.It is Summer 1987, just before the release of The Smiths final album, and John believes that he will never escape Monkey Island; a community left devastated by the Miners' Strike.Introspective, self-critical and handsome, John feels trapped and a series of poor decisions sets him adrift from his thoughtful, book-loving girlfriend and his gregarious, sexually-charged and hard-as-nails best friend. Infected by isolation and secrecy, John begins to question his sanity when he hears the voice of his dead-twin.Pursued by local football hooligans and discarded from his sporting team, for John it feels like the end of the world, where becoming a man - in this changing landscape - seems impossible. Fifteen is an age where many avenues appear, John has to choose the one which can lead him to happiness.For John, that Summer became the story of his life...

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