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HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE
By: 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 teenagerβs larcenous quest for his acting school tuition.
Itβs 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Buellerβtype, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edwardβs father remarries and refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Juilliard.
Edwardβs truly in a bind. Heβs ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. Heβs unable to contact his mother because sheβs somewhere in Peru trying to commune with Incan spirits. And, as a sure sign heβs destined for a life in the arts, Edwardβs 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 youβre not really a man until you can beat up your fatherβmetaphorically, 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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