Boy with loaded gun
a memoir
by Lewis Nordan
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"His own mother referred to him as a "nervous child," an "odd child." He was the class clown - the skinny kid with a cowlick, freckles, jug ears, and an overbite. He could wiggle his ears and fold his eyelids back. He was obsessed with sex, comic books, and beatniks. He tried to fly off his front porch like Superman only to land flat on his face. He was the boy who saved his money, bought a mail-order gun, and shot himself in the foot - over and over again."--BOOK JACKET.
"How did this boy get to be the most famous son of Itta Benna, Mississippi?"--BOOK JACKET. "From losing a father as a child to losing a child as a father, from the rawness of youth to the rage and redemption of adulthood, Lewis Nordan's Boy With Loaded Gun is a powerful elegy about a hopeful boy finding his way in a seemingly hopeless world."--BOOK JACKET.
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American Novelists, Biography, Childhood and youth, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Social life and customs, New York Times reviewed, Authors, american, Mississippi, social life and customs, Southern states, in literature, Authors, biographyPeople
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Boy with loaded gun: a memoir
2000, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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1565121996 9781565121997
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Boy with Loaded Gun: A Memoir
2000, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English
1616204605 9781616204600
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