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"""Comedy and tragedy blend flawlessly in this extraordinary novel...This is coming-of-age literature for all ages. Narrator James is pure perfection...Highly recommended."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""In a painfully believable performance, Lloyd James suffers Calvin's adolescent misery...James' performance combines pathos with comedy, making the ingenuous, if not-so-innocent, Calvin a character to remember."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Not since Huck Finn has American literature been graced with a character as irresistible as Calvin Dort Becker."" -- "" Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author """

Comedy and tragedy blend flawlessly in this extraordinary novel...This is coming-of-age literature for all ages. Narrator James is pure perfection...Highly recommended. -- Library Journal In a painfully believable performance, Lloyd James suffers Calvin's adolescent misery...James' performance combines pathos with comedy, making the ingenuous, if not-so-innocent, Calvin a character to remember. -- AudioFile Not since Huck Finn has American literature been graced with a character as irresistible as Calvin Dort Becker. -- Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author

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Frank Sshaeffer is the author of two other novels, Saving Grandma and Portofino. In addition, he and his son, John, have coauthored the New York Times best-seller Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story about Love and the United States Marine Corps. Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others.

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