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McSweeney's
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 193478141X
EAN: 9781934781418
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Fiction Family Life
Having spent most of his life medicated, electroshocked, and
institutionalized, Jerome Coe finds himself homeless on the
coldest night of the century — and so, with nowhere else to
go, he accepts a ride out of New England from an old love's
ex-girlfriend. It doesn't quite work out, but he makes it to
New Orleans, and a new life — work, friends, and only the
occasional psychotic break. What follows involves his last
two chances to find real happiness (one's from Ecuador, one
sells cigarettes), the old vicious enemies that may prevent
him from obtaining it, and a cast of Crescent City denizens
that makes for one of the most vivid ensembles since Toole's
A Confederacy of Dunces.
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