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McSweeney's
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 1932416838
EAN: 9781932416831
Hardcover
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Kicked out of Yale at age 14, Judd Breslau falls in with
Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working
out of a dilapidated home laboratory. There, young Valerie
Chatterton quickly leads Breslau away from his research and
into, in order: the attic, a Colorado equestrian ranch, a
porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, and a jail cell in
southern Iraq, where we find him awaiting his own execution
while the war rages on in the north. Written by a
90-year-old debut novelist, ex-Marine, two-time Oscar
nominee, and co-creator of Mr. Magoo, Bowl of Cherries
rivals the liveliest comic novels for sheer gleeful
inventiveness. This is a book of astounding breadth and
sharp consequence, containing all the joy, derangement,
terror, and doubt of adolescence and modern times.
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