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How I Paid for College
Marc Acito
A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
Broadway
August 2006
On Sale: August 2, 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 0767918541
EAN: 9780767918541
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A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly
theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager’s
larcenous quest for his acting school
tuition.
It’s 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey,
a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan.
Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris
Bueller–type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree
summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt,
however, when Edward’s father remarries and refuses to pay
for Edward to study acting at Juilliard.
Edward’s
truly in a bind. He’s ineligible for scholarships because
his father earns too much. He’s unable to contact his mother
because she’s somewhere in Peru trying to commune with Incan
spirits. And, as a sure sign he’s destined for a life in the
arts, Edward’s incapable of holding down a job. So he turns
to his loyal (but immoral) misfit friends to help him steal
the tuition money from his father, all the while practicing
for his high school performance of Grease. Disguising
themselves as nuns and priests, they merrily scheme their
way through embezzlement, money laundering, identity theft,
forgery, and blackmail. But, along the way, Edward also
learns the value of friendship, hard work, and how you’re
not really a man until you can beat up your
father—metaphorically, that is.
How I Paid for
College is a farcical coming-of-age story that combines
the first-person tone of David Sedaris with the byzantine
plot twists of Armistead Maupin. It is a novel for anyone
who has ever had a dream or a scheme, and it marks the
introduction to an original and audacious talent.
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