Ten thousand saints
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge.
| Main Author: | Henderson, Eleanor. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Ecco,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
When his best friend Teddy dies of an overdose on the last day of 1987, Jude Keffy-Horn finds his relationship with drugs and his parents devolving into the extreme when he gets caught up in an underground youth culture known as straight edge. |
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| Physical Description: |
388 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780062021021 : 0062021028 : |
| Author Notes: |
Eleanor Henderson is an author who was born in Greece and raised in Florida. She later attended Middlebury College amd the University of Virginia, where she graduated with her MFA. She has written two novels: The Twelve-Mile Straight and Ten Thousand Saints. Her works have appeared in several publications including Ninth Letter, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Best American Short Stories. She is also the co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today's Best Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) |