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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Da Capo Pr
Publication date September 14, 2003
Pages 304
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780786712595
ISBN-10 0786712597
Dimensions 1.50 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1.12 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $25.00
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Crazy for God | Crazy for God | Saving Grandma | Portofino
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A sequel to Portofino takes readers on a hilarious, poignant coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Switzerland, enjoying his first sexual encounters with a waitress.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Calvin Becker is back in a timely, timeless story about the volcanic sexual curiosity of a fourteen-year-old boy born into a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced (and has to hide his five copies of Mad magazine in the attic). It is 1966, and Ralph and Elsa Becker, Reformed Presbyterian missionaries from Kansas, are stationed in Switzerland, and on a modest ski vacation with their children: tyrannical eighteen-year-old Janet, angelic Rachael, and our narrator, the irrepressible Calvin, a fourteen year-old who puzzles over his sisters' bras, as they hang on a line hidden away "so that I could not get a good look unless I ducked under the sheets ... to the feminine heart of the laundry maze." But at the Hotel Riffelberg, high above Zermatt, Calvin falls into the hands of a waitress who, while bringing him his breakfast each morning, serially initiates him into ecstasies he can barely comprehend. The resulting family crisis triggers a larger crisis of faith in his fundamentalist father, leading to a climax which rips Calvin out of his childhood. With echoes of Irving and Roth and its own uniquely human voice, Zermatt is a gem.


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Hardcover
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from Da Capo Pr (September 14, 2003)
9780786712595 | details & prices | 304 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.50 in. | 1.12 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Takes readers on a coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Zermatt, Switzerland.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780552779296 Book cover for 9780786714605
 
from Transworld Pub (February 4, 2013)
9780552779296 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $16.90
About: Calvin Becker's strict fundamentalist upbringing means he's never seen a film, watched television or danced.
Reprint edition from Da Capo Pr (August 23, 2004)
9780786714605 | details & prices | 247 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $14.00
About: A sequel to Portofino takes readers on a hilarious, poignant coming-of-age journey as Calvin, a fourteen-year-old boy from a fundamentalist family, confronts his first sexual feelings while on a ski trip to Switzerland, enjoying his first sexual encounters with a waitress.

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