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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
July 1, 2003
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition
Abridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739307373
ISBN-10
0739307371
Dimensions
1.25 by 4.50 by 7.25 in.
Weight
0.28 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.00
Other format details
audio
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he uncovers the truth about his father's past and present.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A remarkable debut novelâgiven extraordinary life by its amalgam of energy, raw authentic language, and, at the core, a surprising gentleness.
It is the work of the constantly amazing wrestler-writer Mick Foley, whose two volumes of autobiography, Have a Nice Day! and Foley Is Good, were each number one on the New York Times National Best-seller List.
It tells the story and speaks in the voiceâat once innocent and too knowing for his ageâof Antietam (Andy) Brown, named for the great-great-great- grandfather who died on that Civil War battlefield. Andy at seventeen is himself the veteran of a violent boyhood, having been locked up in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center for killing a teenager who attempted to rape him.
Now, after seven years, he is out, free, at a crossroads, trying to make a fresh start, to fit into the life of Conestoga High School in the small upstate New York town to which he has been brought by his fatherâabsent from his life since he was a month old. The man is certainly charismatic. He is also crude, apparently addicted to bodybuilding, beer swilling, and (his own words for his serial womanizing) âbareback riding.â He has no visible job, no known past.
Associated by the town with his fatherâs coarseness, hectored by the boorish football coach and the coachâs pack of steroid-pumping teens, feeling himself losing ground, Andy is stunned to discover that the most popular girl in town is attracted to him. Terri, the homecoming queen, the school beauty, every boyâs dream girl, a born-again Christian, a really nice girl. Andy canât believe it. He is immediately head over heels in loveâfirst loveâand determined to protect Terri from everything bad on earth. Worried that his father, even he himself, might contaminate her, and determined for her sake to discover what his father is, Andy begins to delve into the locked rooms and dangerous currents of the elder Tietam Brownâs past and present.
What happens is told in a novel that is appealingly direct, moving, and altogether pleasurable in its superb storytelling and celebration of the human spirit.
From the Hardcover edition.
It is the work of the constantly amazing wrestler-writer Mick Foley, whose two volumes of autobiography, Have a Nice Day! and Foley Is Good, were each number one on the New York Times National Best-seller List.
It tells the story and speaks in the voiceâat once innocent and too knowing for his ageâof Antietam (Andy) Brown, named for the great-great-great- grandfather who died on that Civil War battlefield. Andy at seventeen is himself the veteran of a violent boyhood, having been locked up in the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center for killing a teenager who attempted to rape him.
Now, after seven years, he is out, free, at a crossroads, trying to make a fresh start, to fit into the life of Conestoga High School in the small upstate New York town to which he has been brought by his fatherâabsent from his life since he was a month old. The man is certainly charismatic. He is also crude, apparently addicted to bodybuilding, beer swilling, and (his own words for his serial womanizing) âbareback riding.â He has no visible job, no known past.
Associated by the town with his fatherâs coarseness, hectored by the boorish football coach and the coachâs pack of steroid-pumping teens, feeling himself losing ground, Andy is stunned to discover that the most popular girl in town is attracted to him. Terri, the homecoming queen, the school beauty, every boyâs dream girl, a born-again Christian, a really nice girl. Andy canât believe it. He is immediately head over heels in loveâfirst loveâand determined to protect Terri from everything bad on earth. Worried that his father, even he himself, might contaminate her, and determined for her sake to discover what his father is, Andy begins to delve into the locked rooms and dangerous currents of the elder Tietam Brownâs past and present.
What happens is told in a novel that is appealingly direct, moving, and altogether pleasurable in its superb storytelling and celebration of the human spirit.
From the Hardcover edition.
Editions
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (September 14, 2004)
9781400034130 | details & prices | 243 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $15.95
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he struggles to uncover the truth about his father's past and present.
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he struggles to uncover the truth about his father's past and present.
Miscellaneous
Abridged edition from Random House (June 1, 2004)
9780739304440 | details & prices | List price $12.95
CD/Spoken Word
Abridged edition from Random House (July 1, 2003)
9780739304433 | details & prices | 5.50 × 5.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.44 lbs | List price $27.50
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he uncovers the truth about his father's past and present.
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he uncovers the truth about his father's past and present.
Cassette/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Abridged edition from Random House (July 1, 2003)
9780739307373 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.25 × 1.25 in. | 0.28 lbs | List price $25.00
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he uncovers the truth about his father's past and present.
About: After returning from seven years in reform school, Antietam 'Andy' Brown finds himself plagued by the same macho curse that afflicted his charismatic but violent father, as he uncovers the truth about his father's past and present.
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