The Ordinary White Boy
Brock Clarke
272 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0156027097
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Language: English
Publish: September 3, 2002
An over-educated, middle-class young man in a depressed, working-class town, twenty-seven-year-old Lamar Kerry faces a host of challenges as he deals with his mother’s chronic illness, the disappointment in him of his father and girlfriend, the disappearance of his town’s only Hispanic, who is missing and presumed dead, and the responsibilities of becoming an adult. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.