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Slam
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Lewis Shiner
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Hardwired
Publication date
January 1, 1998
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781888869286
ISBN-10
1888869283
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$12.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.]
[Read by Stefan Rudnicki]
Slam is a bright and acerbic depiction of the slacker culture of Texas and a testament to a lost and found generation. Dave stepped out of Bastrop Federal Prison after a six-month stretch for tax evasion and into the home of one Marguerite Johnson, a.k.a. the Old Lady. The Old Lady passed on, leaving her house and her fortune to her twenty-three cats. But the cats need a caretaker -- or so he thinks. There are others with an eye on the Johnson estate, and soon Dave is caught up in a whirlwind of anarchists, gold diggers, skateboard punks, lawyers, hackers, and arsonists -- a population of dropouts and misfits who will do anything to avoid doing anything.
[Read by Stefan Rudnicki]
Slam is a bright and acerbic depiction of the slacker culture of Texas and a testament to a lost and found generation. Dave stepped out of Bastrop Federal Prison after a six-month stretch for tax evasion and into the home of one Marguerite Johnson, a.k.a. the Old Lady. The Old Lady passed on, leaving her house and her fortune to her twenty-three cats. But the cats need a caretaker -- or so he thinks. There are others with an eye on the Johnson estate, and soon Dave is caught up in a whirlwind of anarchists, gold diggers, skateboard punks, lawyers, hackers, and arsonists -- a population of dropouts and misfits who will do anything to avoid doing anything.
Editions
Hardcover
from Doubleday (June 1, 1990)
9780385266833 | details & prices | List price $18.95
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terell, an old friend and prison escapee
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terell, an old friend and prison escapee
Paperback
from Subterranean (May 29, 2011)
9781596064195 | details & prices | 176 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.66 lbs | List price $14.95
Reprint edition from Griffin (February 1, 2001)
9780312267773 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $12.95
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house, only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terell, an old friend.
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house, only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terell, an old friend.
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from Hardwired (January 1, 1998)
9781888869286 | details & prices | List price $12.95
About: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.
About: [Library Edition Audiobook CD format in sturdy Vinyl case.
Reprint edition from Bantam Dell Pub Group (November 1, 1991)
9780553354492 | details & prices | List price $8.50
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house, only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terrell, an old friend and prison escapee
About: Released from prison after serving a sentence for tax evasion, Dave finds a job as a caretaker for a luxurious beach house, only to have his life transformed by his discovery of the joys of skateboarding and by the arrival of Terrell, an old friend and prison escapee
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