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The Breaks

The Breaks

Price, Richard

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Publisher Price: $32.99

ISBN10: 0312566514
ISBN13: 9780312566517
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jun 21 2011
Pages: 480
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

From the author of Clockers and Lush Life comes this glorious, gritty comedy (The New Yorker) Richard Price's The Breaks.

Peter Keller, first college grad from a working-class Yonkers family, thought he was on the road to success. Until no law school wanted him. As he watches his friends advance into promising careers, he jumps from job to job---mail clerk, phone solicitor, stand-up comic---until he breaks down and starts phoning in bomb threats on his own house. He's going to have to work hard to change the pattern of self-sabotage that has defined most of his life. And taking that job at his alma mater as a teacher of freshman comp and starting an affair with a violently psychotic ex-wife of a colleague probably won't help matters. Richard Price's brilliant comic novel is a classic tale of a young man trying to find his place in the world.

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