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I was a teenage slasher

"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores th...

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Main Author: Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Saga Press, 2024.
Edition:First Saga Press hardcover edition.
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High school students > Fiction.
Revenge > Fiction.
Lamesa (Tex.) > Fiction.
Murderers > Texas > Fiction.
Serial murderers > Fiction.
Murderers > Texas > Biography.
Horror fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Historical fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
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Summary:"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic"--
Physical Description:372 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781668022245
1668022249
9781668022269
1668022265
Author Notes:Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians , My Heart Is a Chainsaw , and I Was a Teenage Slasher . He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times , the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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