ISBN: 9780593315224
Editorial: Vintage
Autor: Smith, Bud
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 400
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Two teenagers, in love and insane, journey across the United States in this Bonnie and Clyde–like adventure, pursuing a warped American dream, where Elvis is still king and the corn dog is the “backbone of this great country.”“There is a typo on page 14. Other than that, this book is perfect.” —Bill Callahan“He told her he was a one-woman man and she was it for him. Teal said that was good because he was it for her. It and It. Both of them were It.”Kody Rawlee Green is stuck in juvie. Tella “Teal Cartwheels” Carticelli is packing her bags for Rome--on the orders of her parents, who want her as far from Kody as possible. But teenage love is too strong a force for the obstacles of reality. And the highway beckons.Leaving their abusive pasts behind them in Jersey, Kody and Teal set off on a cross-country road trip equal parts self-destruction and self-discovery, making their way, one stolen car at a time, toward bigger, wider, bluer skies. Along the road, of course, there’s time to stop at Graceland, classic diners, a fairgrounds that smells of “pony shit and kettle corn," and time for run-ins with outsize personalities like the reincarnated Grand Canyon tour guide Dead Bob and the spurious Montana rancher Bill Gold. On their heels, all the while, is Teal’s brother, Neil Carticelli, who’s abandoned his post in the navy to rescue the sister he left behind. But does she really need saving?These all too American tropes find new expression in Bud Smith’s own freewheeling prose—and in Rae Buleri’s original illustrations—filling Teenager with humor, poetry, and a joy that’s palpable in every unforgettable sentence.A VINTAGE ORIGINALReviewNPR's BEST BOOKS OF 2022LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEARCHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS 12 MUST-READ TITLES OF MAY"Teenager is electric. It is damaging and dangerous and stunning. This fast-moving novel will shock you on every page, sometimes once, and sometimes for sentences or paragraphs or pages at a time like a barrage of haymakers." —Nick Sweeney, Atticus Review"A rollicking, hilarious story . . . A novel that you race through and don’t want to end. It’s fast and mean and over-the-top romantic and dark as fuck . . . A novel for now and a novel for all the ages." —Paula Bomer, Full Stop"[A] fast-paced phantasmagoria of a novel . . . [Kody and Teal] embark on a road trip across the country, love each other hard and furiously, find and sow chaos, all the while vying for a kind of freedom that exists solely in fantasy." —Ilana Massad, NPR"A beautiful, doomed adventure steeped in a lovely and vital escapism, crashing through the underbrush toward salvation . . . The novel [is] undeniably modern . . . Deftly blending media influences and literary genres in ecstatic, rhythmic prose that echoes quintessential American greats, Teenager’s influx of influences is audible, visible—you hear Allen Ginsberg in “Howl”-inspired repetitions, Louis L’Amour in the sprawling, exuberant action sequences, Quentin Tarantino in the decadent violence and off-kilter dialogue, a salute to [Hunter S.] Thompson in the expansive meditation on the elusive (nonexistent?) American Dream—but Smith’s outsize, cinematic prose is wholly his own. Teenager is about hope, trauma, self-reliance, the necessity of carving out a piece of the world for yourself—but above all else, it’s a testament to young love." —Mila Jaroniec, The Millions"[Bud Smith] is a hell of a writer: honest and vulnerable and sincere . . . There is a poetry to even the most mundane descriptions within the book. A feeling that you’re in on a secret that no one else is privy to." —Patrick Trotti, JMWW"At once a thrill ride—the writing is as exhilarating as the action is appalling—and a genuine, full-hearted tragedy." —George Ernsberger, Shawangunk Journal"Collectively, we’ve been obsessed with the Bonnie and Clyde narrative for decades [and] Bud Smith blows all fiction that came before him out of the water, [expa
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