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Product Description: ALA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Chicago Weekly Best Books of 2014 A Michael L. Printz Honor Award Winner Winner, 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 Finalist, William C. Morris Award It's 1993, and Generation X pulses to the beat of Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement...read more
Paperback:
9780989515597, titled "The Carnival at Bray" | Elephant Rock Productions, October 1, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: ALA 2015 Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Chicago Weekly Best Books of 2014 A Michael L.
Prebinding:
9780606382243, titled "The Carnival at Bray" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2014, cover price $24.45
What do you do if youâre a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you belonged in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpiesâ lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyesâbasically taking you with himâand just today youâve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you?If youâre Clive Beresfordâthe haplessly obsessed guy at the center of Tim Thorntonâs wildly comic and energetic debut novelâyou get remarkably drunk and write and deliver a note to your idol (the contents of which you canât remember the next morning), which causes two very large bouncer types to appear at your door warning you to back off, which, in turn, causes you to hide your true identity when you do finally meet Lance, totally by accident (heâs come a long way since the Magpies, but he is still LANCE F**CKING WEBSTER!) . . . none of which deters you from believingâreally believingâthat he could still save your life if only you could get that âearth-shattering exclusiveâ interview with him.With the story shifting between Cliveâs life-changing Magpies past and his frantic present, we get a headlong, boisterous coming-of-age (if-not-quite-growing-up) romp and a warmhearted, hilarious view of friendship, hero worship, and the full-blast power of music to help us become, at the very least, who we would like to think we are.
Hardcover:
9780307271099 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 21, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: What do you do if youâre a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you belonged in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occurred about six years later when Lance Webster, the Magpiesâ lead singer, self-destructed on stage before your eyesâbasically taking you with himâand just today youâve discovered that Lance lives down the street from you?
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9780307456137 | 1 edition (Vintage Books, July 13, 2010), cover price $15.95
9780224087247 | Vintage Uk, March 5, 2009, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: By the time most people hit 30, they've managed to do one of the following things: grow up; meet one of their heroes; and move on a bit from the music they were obsessed with at the age of 17.
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