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Hanger Stout, Awake! (50th Anniversary Edition)

โœ Scribed by Matthews, Jack

Book ID
110442914
Publisher
Personville Press
Year
1967
Tongue
English
Weight
174 KB
Series
50th Anniversary Edition
Category
Fiction

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โœฆ Synopsis

This slender 150 page coming-of-age novella was first published in 1967 and reprinted several times. Now, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, it is available as an ebook. TIME MAGAZINE described it as a "gentle first novel told with a fine ear for adolescent patois," and National Book Award winning poet William Stafford called it one of the most neglected works of the 20th century. Southern novelist Eudora Welty said about the book: "I like it, and warmly admire his sturdy subject and delicately restrained treatment. It seemed to me blessed with honesty, clarity, directness, proportion and a lovely humor. . . ."

Clyde Stout is a high school graduate in a small Ohio town; he loves tinkering with cars and dreaming about his girlfriend. He has interests and aspirations, but no definite goals. He is coasting ... until he discovers he has a new talent: the ability to hang from a metal bar longer than anybody!

Others start calling him "Hanger," and an out-of-town...

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