NoVA
by
James Boice
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
141657543X
ISBN-13
9781416575436
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Imprint
Scribner
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 2011
Print length
322 Pages
Weight
475 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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Grayson Donald, seventeen years old, has just hanged himself from a basketball hoop next to a playground in Centreville, North Virginia (NoVA). The question is, Why? In this incisive dissection of the author''s hometown, James Boice scratches its shiny suburban surface to reveal a place formed from "a cloud that slid west and met with the humidity and spent buckshot cartridges and Civil War bones clad in blue and gray to create concrete and vinyl siding and front yards laid in chunks, child care centers and video rental places."
An exciting new voice in fiction, James Boice blends sharp social observations with dark humor and remarkable prose. In both passing glimpses and intimate interior monologues, we come to know Grayson''s family, his fellow students, his neighbors, and many who knew him only slightly, if at all. A portrait of a town emerges that renders Grayson''s suicide both devastating and inevitable. NoVA is a unique and fascinating depiction of the American suburb.
An exciting new voice in fiction, James Boice blends sharp social observations with dark humor and remarkable prose. In both passing glimpses and intimate interior monologues, we come to know Grayson''s family, his fellow students, his neighbors, and many who knew him only slightly, if at all. A portrait of a town emerges that renders Grayson''s suicide both devastating and inevitable. NoVA is a unique and fascinating depiction of the American suburb.
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