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The Crowded Room: A Novella by Jeffrey Dunne

4/5 ( ratings)

This coming-of-age novella tracks a week in the life of high-school senior Jeffrey Dunne who's smack in the middle of Homecoming 1978. His classwork is suffering, his friends are alienating him , and to top it all, his cheerleader girlfriend has just ditched him for another guy. Teachers are always saying that you're here to learn something and all I learned is how to get sick and go crazy. That's all. I get really sick when I see everybody getting everything they want, anytime . . . Put them together with the brainy idiots still raising their hands and asking stupid questions and you get a yearbook with all of them there in the hall of fame, pretty as a picture and smiling and not giving a damn. Anyone who has ev er lived with a teenager, or remembers what it was like to be a teenager, will appreciate Jeffrey Dunne? Twin Cities writer and critic Michael Fallon, from the foreword, Maupin evokes the teenage wasteland of a 1970s Minnesota high school.

Pages: 138

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phlegethon Publications

Release: April 01, 2004

ISBN: 097536510X

ISBN 13: 9780975365106

The Crowded Room: A Novella by Jeffrey Dunne

4/5 ( ratings)

This coming-of-age novella tracks a week in the life of high-school senior Jeffrey Dunne who's smack in the middle of Homecoming 1978. His classwork is suffering, his friends are alienating him , and to top it all, his cheerleader girlfriend has just ditched him for another guy. Teachers are always saying that you're here to learn something and all I learned is how to get sick and go crazy. That's all. I get really sick when I see everybody getting everything they want, anytime . . . Put them together with the brainy idiots still raising their hands and asking stupid questions and you get a yearbook with all of them there in the hall of fame, pretty as a picture and smiling and not giving a damn. Anyone who has ev er lived with a teenager, or remembers what it was like to be a teenager, will appreciate Jeffrey Dunne? Twin Cities writer and critic Michael Fallon, from the foreword, Maupin evokes the teenage wasteland of a 1970s Minnesota high school.

Pages: 138

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Phlegethon Publications

Release: April 01, 2004

ISBN: 097536510X

ISBN 13: 9780975365106

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