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Indlæser... How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater (original 2004; udgave 2005)af Marc Acito (Forfatter)
Work InformationHow I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater af Marc Acito (2004)
  
Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   Natt90 | Jul 5, 2022 |   ) Je9 | Aug 10, 2021 |  ) David_Cain | May 31, 2019 | ★★★ Amazon’s Description of the book : It’s 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Bueller–type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edward’s father remarries and refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Juilliard. Edward’s truly in a bind. He’s ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. He’s unable to contact his mother because she’s somewhere in Peru trying to commune with Incan spirits. And, as a sure sign he’s destined for a life in the arts, Edward’s incapable of holding down a job. So he turns to his loyal (but immoral) misfit friends to help him steal the tuition money from his father, all the while practicing for his high school performance of Grease. Disguising themselves as nuns and priests, they merrily scheme their way through embezzlement, money laundering, identity theft, forgery, and blackmail. But, along the way, Edward also learns the value of friendship, hard work, and how you’re not really a man until you can beat up your father—metaphorically, that is. How I Paid for College is a farcical coming-of-age story that combines the first-person tone of David Sedaris with the byzantine plot twists of Armistead Maupin. I went to the library one day, closed my eyes, grabbed a book at random, and this is what I ended up with. Book Roulette. The book starts out kind of slow and I was less than fond of the characters. It was quite raunchy at times and it reminded me of a mix between Breakfast Club and Glee. This book is hard for me to rate because while there were many times I was up in the air of whether I even enjoyed the story, I couldn’t stop reading it – which led me to believe there was something worth continuing with. Maybe I’m just not young enough to relate to obnoxious, sexually confused (very confused), immature high schoolers anymore… of course I rarely related to high schoolers when I WAS in high school. I did learn to like the characters at the end and there was a growing and maturity of them all, which warmed my heart. There were some humorous parts. An okay read but nothing worth raving about honestly. ( ) UberButter | Feb 9, 2016 | ) melydia | Jan 12, 2015 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML:A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenagerâ??s larcenous quest for his acting school tuition Itâ??s 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan. Seventeen-year-old Edward Zanni, a feckless Ferris Buellerâ??type, is Peter Panning his way through a carefree summer of magic and mischief. The fun comes to a halt, however, when Edwardâ??s father remarries and refuses to pay for Edward to study acting at Juilliard. Edwardâ??s truly in a bind. Heâ??s ineligible for scholarships because his father earns too much. Heâ??s unable to contact his mother because sheâ??s somewhere in Peru trying to commune with Incan spirits. And, as a sure sign heâ??s destined for a life in the arts, Edwardâ??s incapable of holding down a job. So he turns to his loyal (but immoral) misfit friends to help him steal the tuition money from his father, all the while practicing for his high school performance of Grease. Disguising themselves as nuns and priests, they merrily scheme their way through embezzlement, money laundering, identity theft, forgery, and blackmail. But, along the way, Edward also learns the value of friendship, hard work, and how youâ??re not really a man until you can beat up your fatherâ??metaphorically, that is. How I Paid for College is a farcical coming-of-age story that combines the first-person tone of David Sedaris with the byzantine plot twists of Armistead Maupin. It is a novel for anyone who has ever had a dream or a scheme, and it marks the introduction No library descriptions found. |
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