Tender As Hellfire 【電子書籍】[ Joe Meno ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the award-winning author of ＜em＞The Boy Detective Fails＜/em＞: A novel of two brothers growing up on the other side of the tracks.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A trailer park in the Plains town of Tenderloin is the setting of this crusty coming-of-age debut, which features some of the liveliest characters just this side of believable that one is apt to meet in a contemporary novel. The first-person narrator is a moral but susceptible eleven-year-old called Dough, who lusts after his fifth-grade teacher and idolizes his trouble-making older brother, Pill-Bug. The boys, who are new to the town and shamed by the stigma of living in a trailer, were named by a father who wanted them to remain tough and who ended up dying while smuggling cigarettes along a Texas highway. Their mother and her new boyfriend, French, are low-life swingers, allowing the siblings to spend nights with Val, who entertains a slew of men but whom Dough worships as a virginal Madonna. Dough's own adoring friend is ．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る