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St. Martin's Griffin
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Billy Kinsey; Twom Twomey; Gretchen Quinn
ISBN: 1250054419
EAN: 9781250054418
Kindle: B00MLNBIM8
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Young Adult
This is the story of Billy Kinsey, heir to a lottery
fortune, part genius, part philosopher and social critic,
full time insomniac and closeted rock drummer. Billy has
decided that the best way to deal with an absurd world is to
stay away from it. Do not volunteer. Do not join in. Billy
will be the first to tell you it doesn’t always work— not
when your twin sister, Dorie, has died, not when your
unhappy parents are at war with one another, not when
frazzled soccer moms in two ton SUVs are more dangerous than
atom bombs, and not when your guidance counselor keeps
asking why you haven’t applied to college. Billy’s life changes when two people enter his life. Twom
Twomey is a charismatic renegade who believes that truly
living means going a little outlaw. Twom and Billy become
one another’s mutual benefactor and friend. At the same
time, Billy is reintroduced to Gretchen Quinn, an old and
adored friend of Dorie’s. It is Gretchen who suggests to
Billy that the world can be transformed by creative
acts of
the soul. With Twom, Billy visits the dark side. And with Gretchen,
Billy experiences possibilities. Billy knows that one path is leading him toward disaster and
the other toward happiness. The problem is—Billy doesn’t
trust happiness. It's the age he's at. The tragic age. Stephen Metcalfe's brilliant, debut coming-of-age novel, The
Tragic Age, will teach you to learn to love, trust and truly
be alive in an absurd world.
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