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Clown Town
US $449.10
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Located in: North Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States
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Estimated between Wed, 17 Sep and Wed, 24 Sep to 94104
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eBay item number:146799107824
Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2008
- ISBN
- 9781598586701
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
DO&G E·A·R Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10
159858670X
ISBN-13
9781598586701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038396794
Product Key Features
Book Title
Clown Town
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Synopsis
Clown Town is true story/social Chicago history of a baby boomer's struggle with death phobia filtered through a child's perspective. The title refers to an imaginary world created by the young protagonist, Pudgie, to pacify his younger friend's curiosity about the real world of school. Pudgie's real world, however, is a horrific world of indignity, humiliation, anger, and fear. Clown Town is a utopian world of fantasy for young boys growing up in a Chicago suburb during the 1950s. The Prologue establishes the adult first-person narrator in the present tense. He is forced to reminisce about his youth when the eminent death of his mother rekindles old fears and personality quirks that had haunted his life. His journey backward leads the reader to the death of a neighborhood man, the death of Pudgie's grandfather, and the death of a schoolmate in a historic Chicago school fire of 1958. Pudgie also struggles with a volatile temper when teased about his crossed left eye. The temper threatens his existence in a "normal" school. Along the way, the narrative treats the reader to a nostalgic look at the 1950s (the music, the cars, the TV shows, the movies, the mores), a naive child's interpretation of sex, and an adult perspective of childhood adventures such as smoking, competing in sports, and participating in petty crime.
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